Berar Division

Berar Division वर्हाड
Division of British India
← 1903–1947 →
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1909 map of the Central Provinces with Berar Division in light pink.
Capital		Ellichpur (Achalpur)
History
•	Creation of the division	1903
•	Independence of India	1947
Area
•	1881	28,515 km2(11,010 sq mi)
Population
•	1881	2,672,673
	Density	93.7 /km2  (242.8 /sq mi)
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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The Berar Division, formerly Berar Province, was one of the former administrative divisions of the Central Provinces and Berar of British India. Ellichpur (Achalpur) was the capital and the administrative headquarters of the division.

The Berar Division had an area of 28,515 km² with a population of 2,672,673 in 1881. The main mountain chains in the area were the Satpura and the Ajanta ranges, and the main rivers the Tapti, the Purna, the Wardha, the Penganga and the Pranhita. It was located in present-day Maharashtra state of India.

Berar Province, formerly ruled by the Nizam of Hyderabad, was administered by the British after 1853, although the Nizam retained formal sovereignty over the province. Through an agreement signed on 5 November 1902, Nizam Nawab Mir Sir Mahbub Ali Khan leased Berar permanently to the British against an annual payment of 25 lakhs of rupees. Lord Curzon decided to merge Berar with the Central Provinces, and this was proclaimed on 17 September 1903. Thus the Central Provinces and Berar was born by a Residency Order, dated the 30 September 1903, and the administration of Berar was placed under the Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces.

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