The international geography . of 776,000,the plague having killed orscared away over 40,000 since FIG. of Bombay. ^^9^- Its trade goes mostly by the Suez Canal to theWest, or by Singapore to the East, with a rising share in the commerce ofsouthern Arabia and east Africa. In Gujarat is the old Musalman capital,Ahmedabad, now a military station, a railway centre and a manufacturingtown, with much through trade in cotton and wheat. Siirat, the firsttrading centre of the British in India, has ceased to be a seaport, owingto the silting up of the mouth of the Tapti. Poona, the capital of
The international geography . of 776,000,the plague having killed orscared away over 40,000 since FIG. of Bombay. ^^9^- Its trade goes mostly by the Suez Canal to theWest, or by Singapore to the East, with a rising share in the commerce ofsouthern Arabia and east Africa. In Gujarat is the old Musalman capital,Ahmedabad, now a military station, a railway centre and a manufacturingtown, with much through trade in cotton and wheat. Siirat, the firsttrading centre of the British in India, has ceased to be a seaport, owingto the silting up of the mouth of the Tapti. Poona, the capital of theMarathr* power under the Peshwa, and still the headquarters duringthe rainy season of the Provincial Government, retains much of its formercharacter in the absence of modern trade-bustle and the predominance ofthe Brahman element. Sholapiir, on the other hand, in the north-east ofthe Dekkan. and Hiibli in the south-west, have thrown themselves into thestream of modern progress, and set up large cotton factories and railway. tkalkbarP**/ % ./ HARBOUR /, India—Central Provinces 493 works respectively. The same tendency is visible in several of the smallertowns, some of which are highly progressive. Berar.—The small province of Berar lies between the Satpura and theDekkan, and, with the exception of a hilly tract to the south and a smaller oneto the north, consists of a level and very fertile plain. The inhabitants,reduced by famine from nearly 3 millions to 2,754,000, are almost allMaratha by race, with a sprinkling in the north of the dark hill agriculture is noteworthy, because, of all the provinces, Berar aloneproduces relatively more for export than for home consumption. It has afair staple of cotton, and excellent oil seeds and wheat. This advantagehas conduced to the conversion of local markets into the resort of foreigntraders, Indian and European, and thus, although the chief towns, Ellich-pur and Amnioii, are small, they are busy at the harvest season o
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