Chota Nagpore (Chutiâ Nâgpur), a south-west division or commissionery of Bengal, embracing four British districts, seven petty tributary states, and two semi-independent states, with a surface for the most part wild and hilly. Area of the British districts, 26,966 sq. m.; pop. 4,628,792. Area of the division, 43,020 sq. m.; pop. 5,512,151, of whom more than 800,000 belong to various aboriginal tribes.
Chota Nagpore
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 211
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