Central Provinces

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former administrative division province of British India

The Central Provinces was a major administrative region of British India located in central India, encompassing parts of present-day Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

Aliases (5)

Central Provinces and Berar ×8
Central Provinces (as a Chief Commissionership) ×1
Nagpur Province ×1
Saugor and Nerbudda Territories ×1
central India ×1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	former administrative division → province of British India →
administrativeLanguage	English → Hindi →
administrativeStatus	Chief Commissionership (initially) → Governor’s Province (later) →
borderedBy	Bengal Presidency → Bombay Presidency → Hyderabad State → United Provinces →
capital	Nagpur →
country	British India →
dateEstablished	1861 →
dateReorganizedAsCentralProvincesAndBerar	1936 →
economicActivity	agriculture →
formedByMergerOf	Nagpur Province → Saugor and Nerbudda Territories →
governedBy	Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces →
hadSignificantTribalPopulation	true →
historicalEra	British colonial period →
includedRegion	Chhattisgarh region → Mahakoshal region →
includedTerritory	parts of present-day Madhya Pradesh → parts of present-day Maharashtra →
laterGovernedBy	Governor of the Central Provinces and Berar →
legalSystem	British Indian law →
locatedIn	central India →
majorCity	Jabalpur → Nagpur →
majorCrops	cotton → millets → wheat →
majorLanguage	Gondi → Hindi → Marathi →
partOf	British Raj →
postIndependenceSuccessor	Madhya Pradesh → Maharashtra →
railwayDevelopment	served by Great Indian Peninsula Railway →
region	parts of the Deccan → parts of the Satpura range →
religionMajority	Hinduism →
religionMinority	Islam → tribal religions →
reorganizedAs	Central Provinces and Berar →
sovereignDuringExistence	British Crown →
underAdministrationOf	Governor-General of India →

Referenced by (23)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Bihar and Orissa Province → Hyderabad State ("Central Provinces and Berar") → United Provinces ("Central Provinces and Berar") → United Provinces of Agra and Oudh →	borderedBy
Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces → Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces ("Central Provinces and Berar") → Governor of the Central Provinces and Berar ("Central Provinces and Berar") →	locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity
Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces → Governor of the Central Provinces and Berar ("Central Provinces and Berar") →	appliesToJurisdiction
Central Provinces ("Saugor and Nerbudda Territories") → Central Provinces ("Nagpur Province") →	formedByMergerOf
Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces ("Central Provinces (as a Chief Commissionership)") → Governor of the Central Provinces and Berar ("Central Provinces and Berar") →	governs
B. R. Ambedkar →	birthPlace
Governor of the Central Provinces and Berar →	hasJurisdictionOver
Jaitpur →	historicalRegion
British India →	includedTerritory
Central Provinces ("central India") →	locatedIn
Nagpur session of the Indian National Congress (1920) →	location
Home Rule movement →	mainRegion
Chandrasekhar Azad →	regionOfActivity
Odisha (parts) ("Central Provinces and Berar") →	relatedTo
Central Provinces ("Central Provinces and Berar") →	reorganizedAs