Bhopal — Chambers's Encyclopaedia

Bhopal, the capital of a native state in Central India, 325 miles SW. of Allahabad. The largest of two artificial lakes in the neighbourhood measures $4\frac{1}{2}$ miles by $1\frac{1}{2}$ .—The state of Bhopal has an area of 6874 sq. m. Though the vast mass of the people are Hindus, yet the government is Mohammedan, and Bhopal has the reputation of being the best-governed native state in India. The state was founded in 1723 by Dost Mohammed Khan, and a treaty of dependence was concluded between the ruler and the British government in 1818. Shah Jahan, the Begum of Bhopal, in 1872 received the Grand Cross of the Star of India. Pop. of state (1891) 952,986; of city, 70,338.