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n. Central Canada.
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The Central Provinces was a province of British India. It comprised British conquests from the Mughals and Marathas in central India, and covered parts of present-day Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra states. Its capital was Nagpur. It became the Central Provinces and Berar in 1936.
The Central Provinces was formed in 1861 by the merger of the Saugor and Nerbudda Territories and Nagpur Province. The district of Nimar which was administered by the Central India Agency was added in 1864. It was almost an island encircled by a sea of "native States" such as Bhopal State and Rewa State to the north, the Chota Nagpur States and Kalahandi State to the east, and the Nizam's territories of Hyderabad to the south and Berar to the west.
Usage examples of "central provinces".
We must crush Conan before his army grows too great, before the central provinces rise.
Zilin had known this from the moment he left Shanghai for the peasant fields of destitute Hunan, where, his sources told him, Mao had returned after thirteen years, to conclude the process of winning over the populous central provinces to his cause.
A crowd of gaping peons stood at the edge of a wheatfieldsomewhere in the Central Provinces, from the flat terrain and broad treeless horizons.
Had Western Texas been settled by people of common honesty, it would, from its topographical situation, have soon become a very important country, as all the mercantile transactions with the north central provinces of Mexico would have been secured to it.
He knew that Betancuria lay in one of the mountainous central provinces of Vadanis and - judging from what he remembered of the maps in Havenmoon's library - it was probably around three hundred miles south of where he was now.
In practice, this had long ago been commuted to a compensatory land-tax (levied on farm units, not on the owners from whom they were generally rented), for most of the central provinces.
The foot-soldiers were mostly conscripted peons from the central provinces, several cuts below the average cavalry recruit socially.
With harvest four months off, the central provinces around the rail line to Old Residence devastated, and every city short of food as winter stocks dwindled, it would probably be impossible to resupply to any meaningful degree.