See also:

• ORCHHA, or URCHHA (also called Tehri or Tikamgarh)

ORCHHA, or URCHHA (also called See also:

• TEHRI

Tehri or Tikamgarh)  , a native See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state of Central See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India, in the See also:

• BUNDELKHAND

Bundelkhand agency . See also:

• ORCHHA, or URCHHA (also called Tehri or Tikamgarh)

Orchha is the See also:

• OLDEST

oldest and highest in See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank of all the Bundela principalities, and was the only one not held in subjection by the See also:

• PESHWA (Persian for " leader," " guide ")

peshwa . See also:

• AREA

Area, 2080 sq. m.; pop . (1901) 321,634; estimated See also:

• REVENUE
• REVENUE (0. Fr. revenu, from revenir, to return)

revenue, £47,000; no See also:

• TRIBUTE (Lat. tributurn, a stated payment, contribution)

tribute . The maharaja, See also:

• SIR

Sir Pratap Singh, G.S.C.I . (See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in 18J4, succeeded in 1874), took a See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• PERSONAL

personal See also:

• INTEREST

interest in the development of his state, and himself designed most of the See also:

• ENGINEERING

engineering and See also:

• IRRIGATION (Lat. in, and rigare, to water or wet)

irrigation See also:

• WORKS

works that have been executed here within See also:

• RECENT

recent years . He bears the hereditary See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of" First of the Princes of Bundelkhand." The state exports See also:

• GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain, ghi, and See also:

• COTTON
• COTTON (Fr. coton; from Arab. qutun)
• COTTON, CHARLES (163o–1687)
• COTTON, GEORGE EDWARD LYNCH (1813–1866)
• COTTON, JOHN (1585–1652)
• COTTON, SIR ROBERT BRUCE

cotton See also:

• CLOTH

cloth, but See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade suffers from imperfect communications . The See also:

• TOWN

town of Orchha, the former See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital, is on the See also:

• RIVER

river See also:

• BETWA

Betwa, not far from See also:

• JHANSI

Jhansi . It possesses an imposing fort, dating mainly from the See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early 17th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . This contains a number of palaces and other buildings connected one with another . The most noteworthy are the Rajmandir, a massive square erection of which the exterior is almost absolutely See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain; and the Jahangirmahal, of the same See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form but far more ornate, a singularly beautiful specimen of See also:

• HINDU

Hindu domestic See also:

• ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture . Elsewhere about the town are See also:

• FINE

fine temples and tombs, among which may be noticed the Chaturbhuj See also:

• TEMPLE
• TEMPLE, FREDERICK (1821-1902)
• TEMPLE, RICHARD
• TEMPLE, SIR RICHARD, BART
• TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM, BART

temple on its vast See also:

• PLATFORM (Fr. plateforme, i.e. ground plan)

platform of See also:

• STONE
• STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
• STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
• STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
• STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
• STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
• STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
• STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
• STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)

stone .

The town of See also:

• TEHRI

Tehri or Tikamgarh, where the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief now resides, is about 40 M . S. of Orchha; pop . (1901) 14,050 . It contains the fort of Tikamgarh, by which name the town is generally called, to distinguish it from Tehri in the Himalayas .