Nagpur

Nagpur, a city of British India, the seat of administration for the Central Provinces, 450 miles ENE. of Bombay by rail. It lies embosomed in trees, has several handsome tanks, gardens, and temples, and extensive suburbs, but is not a healthy city, the mean temperature being 78°·7 F. Fine cloth fabrics are woven, and there is an active trade in wheat, salt, spices, and European goods. Here, on the 26th and 27th November 1817, a British force of 1350 men, commanded by Colonel Scott, defeated a Mahratra army of 18,000 men. Pop. (1872) 84,441; (1881) 98,300; (1891) 117,014. —The district of Nagpur has an area of 3843 sq. m. and a pop. of 757,862; the division, 24,127 sq. m. and a pop. of 2,982,507. —Chota Nagpore (q.v.) is a division of Bengal.