Jabalpur

Jabalpur (Jubbulpore), chief town of Jabalpur district, Central Provinces, India, 228 miles by rail SW. of Allahabad. Standing at the junction of the East Indian and Great Indian Peninsula systems, Jabalpur is one of the most important railway stations in India. It is the second commercial town in the Central Provinces, has a trade worth about £2,000,000 annually, and manufactures cotton, tents, and carpets. Pop. (1877) 55,188; (1891) 84,481.—The district of Jabalpur has an area of 3948 sq. m., and a population of 748,146.—The division, one of the four into which the Central Provinces are broken up, has an area of 18,321 sq. m., and a pop. of 2,375,642, of whom three-fourths are Hindus.