Bundelkhand

Bundelkhand, a region of Upper India, between the rivers Chambal and Jumna. It includes five districts belonging to the British North-western Provinces (Banda, Jalaun, Jhansi, Lalitpur, and Hamirpur), and also the 'Bundelkhand Agency,' a subdivision of the Central India Agency, which is a group of some 30 native states and petty jaghires under native princes. The area of the agency is 10,332 sq. m., and the population about 2,500,000; whilst the figures for the agency are 10,241 sq. m., and (1891) 1,480,095. Notwithstanding that it is well watered, the climate renders irrigation indispensable; and it is accordingly interspersed, at the cost of great labour and ingenuity, with artificial dams and a canal. It possesses deposits of iron ore, diamonds (in Panna), and copper, but the produce is almost solely agricultural. The principal towns of Bundelkhand are Kalpi, Jhansi, Kalinjar, Banda, Jalaun, Chhatarpur, and Datia.