TEHRI  , a native

state in Northern India, in political sub-ordination to the United Provinces: area, 4200 sq. m.; population (19or) 268,885; estimated revenue, £28,000 . It lies entirely amid the Himalayas, containing ranges from 20,000 to 23,000 ft. above sea-level, and also the sources of both the Ganges and the Jumna, with the places of pilgrimage associated with them . The forests, which have been leased to the British government, are very valuable, yielding several kinds of pine, oak and cedar . The crops are rice, small millets, wheat, potatoes and a little tea . The chief, whose title is raja, is descended from a Rajput family which formerly ruled over all Garhwal . The existing state was created by the British after the war with Nepal in 1815 . The town of Tehri, on the river Bhagirathi (as the Ganges is here called) has a pop . (1901) of 3387 .