Central India

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Central India is a region of the Indian subcontinent encompassing parts of present-day Madhya Pradesh and surrounding areas, historically significant as a major theater of uprisings and princely states, including during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical region
region
containsCity Betul
Bhind
Bhopal
Chhindwara
Damoh
Dewas
Guna
Gwalior
Hoshangabad
Indore
Jabalpur
Jhansi
Katni
Khandwa
Khargone
Mandsaur
Morena
Neemuch
Ratlam
Rewa
Sagar
Satna
Sehore
Seoni
Shivpuri
Ujjain
Vidisha
country India
hasEconomicActivity agriculture
forestry
handicrafts
mining
textile industry
hasGeographicalFeature Betwa River
Chambal River
Narmada
surface form: Narmada River

Satpura Range
Son River
Vindhya Range
hasHistoricalRole center of uprisings against British rule
historicallyIncludes Baghelkhand
surface form: Baghelkhand region

Bundelkhand
surface form: Bundelkhand region

Central India self-linksurface differs
surface form: Central India Agency

Malwa
surface form: Malwa region

feudatory states
princely states
includesPartOf Madhya Pradesh
Hadoti
surface form: eastern Rajasthan

Khandesh
surface form: northern Maharashtra

southern Uttar Pradesh
languageRegion Bagheli
Bundeli
Hindi
Malvi
locatedIn Central India self-linksurface differs
surface form: Central India region of India
partOf South Asia
surface form: Indian subcontinent
religionMajority Hinduism
religionMinority Islam
Jainism
Sikhism
significantEvent Indian Rebellion of 1857
timePeriodOfProminence 19th century
British India
surface form: British Raj era
underColonialAdministration British India
underColonialAdministrativeUnit Central India Agency
wasMajorTheaterOf Indian Rebellion of 1857

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Daulat Rao Scindia region Central India
Krishna Rao Newalkar historicalRegion Central India
Kotah-ki-Serai, near Gwalior locatedIn Central India
subject surface form: Kotah-ki-Serai
this entity surface form: central India
Sir Thomas Hislop areaOfInfluence Central India
Wardha River locatedIn Central India
Lashkar locatedInRegion Central India
Gwalior rupee region Central India
Battle of Sitabuldi location Central India
Madhya Bharat locatedIn Central India
Dakhni poets region Central India
West India borderedBy Central India
Holkar region Central India
Sher River region Central India
Sadri region Central India
this entity surface form: central India