The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1

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The Tribes and Castes of the
Central Provinces of India
By
R.V. Russell
Of the Indian Civil Service Superintendent of
Ethnography, Central Provinces
Assisted by
Rai Bahadur Hira Lāl
Extra Assistant Commissioner
Published Under the Orders of the Central
Provinces Administration
In Four Volumes
Vol. I.
Macmillan and Co., Limited St. Martin’s Street,
London.
1916

Political Divisions of the Indian Empire

Political Divisions of the Indian Empire

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Central Provinces and Berar

Central Provinces and Berar

Scale = 1 : 4,000,000 or 63.1 Miles to an Inch

Main Linguistic or Ethnical Divisions of the Central

Provinces with the Sambalpur District and Certain States now in Bihar and Orissa

Main Linguistic or Ethnical Divisions of the Central Provinces with the

Sambalpur District and Certain States now in Bihar and Orissa

Scale = 1 : 4,000,000 or 63.1 Miles to an Inch

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HINDI-speaking Districts.—The western tract includes the

Saugor, Damoh, Jubbulpore, Narsinghpur, Hoshangabad, Nimar and Betul Districts which lie principally in the Nerbudda

Valley or on the Vindhyan Hills north-west of the Valley.

In most of this area the language is the Bundeli dialect of Western Hindi, and in Nimar and Betul a form of the

Rajputana dialects. The eastern tract includes the Raipur,

Bilaspur and Drug Districts and adjacent Feudatory States.

This country is known as Chhattisgarh, and the language is the Chhattisgarhi dialect of Eastern Hindi.

Yellow

MARATHI.—Amraoti, Akola, Buldana and Yeotmal Districts of

Berar, and Nagpur, Bhandara, Wardha and Chanda Districts of the Nagpur Plain.

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