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The Imperial Gazetteer of India Central Provinces to Coompta

1908

The Province is bounded on the north and north-west by the Central India States and along a small strip of Saugor District by the United Provinces; on the west by the States of Bhopal and Indore and by the Khandesh District of Bombay ; on the south by Berär the Nizam's Dominions and large zamindciri estates of the Madras Presidency ; and on the east by the last and by the Tributary States of [...] With the exception of the small Vindhyan plateau the rivers of which flow north to Hindustan and the narrow valley of the Tapti in Nimar practically the whole of the Central Provinces lies in the catcment basin of three rivers—the Narbada the Godavari and the Mahanadi. [...] The main areas of Gondwana rocks in the Central Provinces are in the Satpura range in the basin of the Godavari in Nagpur Wardha and Chanda Districts and in the Bilaspur samineldris and some of the Feudatory States. [...] The normal date of the breaking of the monsoon in the Central Provinces is June ro while the rainfall caused by the advance of the south-west monsoon usually ceases in the second or third week of October. [...] The essential portion of it 'is usually that the couple walk seven times round a sacred pole erected in the middle of the temporary shed in which marriages are always held the bridegroom usually following in the footsteps of the bride for the first four perambulations and the bride in those of the bridegroom for the last three.
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Pages
397
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
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Imperial Gazetteer of India
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