Chhattisgarh Division
Chhattisgarh Division | |||||||||
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Division of British India | |||||||||
1853–1947 | |||||||||
Flag | |||||||||
1909 map of the Central Provinces with the Chhattisgarh Division in the east. | |||||||||
Capital | Raipur | ||||||||
Area | |||||||||
• 1901 | 55,011.3 km2 (21,240.0 sq mi) | ||||||||
Population | |||||||||
• 1901 | 3,283,226 | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• Creation of the division | 1853 | ||||||||
• Independence of India | 1947 | ||||||||
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public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Chhattisgarh". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 116. | This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
Chhattisgarh Division was an administrative division of the
Mahanadi River basin, in the central part of present-day Chhattisgarh state of India
.
With the advent of the British the town of
Ratanpur
, the historical capital of the territory.
The Central Provinces became the and numerous tribal languages.
History
Chhattisgarh Division was occupied by the
Narmadapuram District of the Nerbudda Division.[1]
In 1905, most of Odia speaking region of
Orissa Division of Bengal Province
.
The princely states of
In 1933 the princely states in Chhattisgarh Division were transferred to the Eastern States Agency. On 24 October 1936, the Central Provinces became the Central Provinces and Berar when they were fully merged with Berar Province, although Berar remained under the nominal sovereignty of Hyderabad State.[3]
Territory
The Chhattisgarh Division was bounded to the north by the
Jabalpur divisions, as well as the princely states of Kawardha, Khairagarh, Chhuikhadan and Nandgaon
.
Districts
The division included the following three districts:[4]
See also
References
- ^ Imperial Gazetteer of India, (New ed.), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908–1909. Vol. 10, Page 65.
- ^ McEldowney, Philip F. (1980). Colonial Administration and Social Developments in middle India: The Central Provinces, 1861–1921. Ph. D. Dissertation.
- ^ Olson, James S. and Robert Shadle, eds. Historical Dictionary of the British Empire, Vol. 1. Greenwood Publishing Group, UK 1996. P. 227.
- Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 6. 1908–1931; Clarendon Press, Oxford.