Raipur, a town in the Central Provinces of India, standing on a plateau (950 feet), 180 miles E. of Nagpur, has numerous tanks and groves, an old fort (1640), and a trade in grain, lac, cotton, &c. Pop. 23,759.
Raipur
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 567
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