NAGPUR  , a

city, district and division of British India, in the Central Provinces . The city is 1125 ft. above the sea; railway station, 520 M . E. of Bombay . Pop . (1901) 127, 734 . The town is well laid out, with several parks and artificial lakes, and has numerous Hindu temples . The prettily wooded suburb of Sitabaldi contains the chief government buildings, the houses .of Europeans, the railway station and the cantonments, with fort and arsenal . In the centre stands Sitabaldi Hill, crowned with the fort . Beyond the station lies the broad sheet of water known as the Jama Talao, and farther east is the city, completely hidden in a mass of foliage . Handsome tanks and gardens, constructed by the Mahratta princes, lie outside the city . The palace, built of black basalt and profusely ornamented with wood carving, was burnt down in 1864, and only the great gate-way remains . The garrison consists of detachments of European and native infantry from Kampti .

Nagpur is the headquarters of two

corps of rifle volunteers . It is the junction of two important railway systems—the Great Indian Peninsula to Bombay and the Bengal-Nagpur to Calcutta . The large weaving population maintain their reputation for producing fine fabrics . There are steam cotton mills and machinery for ginning and pressing cotton . The gaol contains an important printing establishment . Education is provided by two aided colleges—the Hislop and the Morris, called after a missionary and a former chief commissioner; four high schools; a law school; an agricultural school, with a class for the scientific training of teachers; a normal school; a zenana mission for the management of girls' schools; an Anglican and two Catholic schools for Europeans . There are several libraries and reading rooms, and an active Anjuman or Mahommedan society . The DISTRICT OF NAGPUR has an area of 384 sq. m . Pop . (1901) 751,844 . It lies immediately below the great tableland of the Satpura range . A second line of hills shuts in the district on the south-west, and a third runs from north to south, parting the country into two plains of unequal size .

These hills are all offshoots of the Satpuras, and nowhere attain any great

elevation . Their heights are rocky and sterile, but the valleys and lowlands yield rich crops of corn and garden produce . The western plain slopes down to the river Wardha, is watered by the Jam and Madar, tributaries of the Wardha, and contains the most highly-tilled land in the district, abounding in fruit trees and the richest garden cultivation . The eastern plain (six times the larger), stretching away to the confines of Bhandara and Chanda, consists of a rich undulating country, luxuriant with mango groves and dotted towards the east with countless small tanks . It is watered by the Kanhan, with its tributaries, which flows into the Wainganga beyond the district . The principal crops are millets, wheat, oil-seeds and cotton . There are steam factories for ginning and pressing cotton at the military cantonment of Kampti, which was formerly the chief centre of trades . An important new industry is manganese mining . The district is traversed by the two lines of railway which meet at Nagpur city, and several branches are under construction . The DIVISION OF NAGPUR comprises the five districts of Nagpur, Bhandara, Chanda, Wardha and Balaghat . Area, 23,521 sq. m . Pop .

(1901) 3,728,063, showing a decrease of 9% in the

decade . See Nagpur District Gazetteer (Bombay, 1908) .