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North-West Provinces

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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A province and lieutenant-governorship of British India, embraces the upper portion of the Ganges Valley and Doab, and reaches from Bengal to the Punjab, enclosing Oudh on all sides but the N.; area twice that of England, is the chief wheat province, and also raises opium, cotton, tea, and sugar; was sepa rated from Bengal in 1835, and with it in 1877 was conjoined Oudh; Allahabad is the capital.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'North-West Provinces'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​n/north-west-provinces.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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