Balaghat

Balaghat ('above the Ghats'), the name given to a large tract of elevated country in the south of India, extending from the rivers Tumbuddra and Krishna in the north to the farthest extremity of Mysore in the south. Also the name of a British district in the Central Provinces; area, 3139 sq. m.; pop. (1881) 340,554; (1891) 383,331.