Saugor and Nerbudda Territories

Region of British India

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History

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Territories captured by the British East India Company

1818

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Merger of the Saugor and Nerbudda Territories and Nagpur Province

1861

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 Saugor and Nerbudda Territories was a region of British India, located in central part of present-day Madhya Pradesh state in central India. It included the present-day districts of Sagar (Saugor), Damoh, Jabalpur, and Narsinghpur.

The region extended on either side of the Narmada River (Nerbudda). Jabalpur (Jubbulpore) was the capital and the military headquarters of the territory. It was one of the candidates for the administrative capital of British India, when the Government decided to move the capital outside Calcutta in 1911.

The Saugor and Nerbudda Territories were captured by the British East India Company from the Marathas at the conclusion of the Third Anglo-Maratha War in 1818. Saugor was the seat of a Maratha governor, and the northern portion of the territory was ceded by the Maratha Peshwa, the southern portion, which included Jabalpur and the upper Narmada ("Nerbudda") valley, was ceded by the Bhonsle maharaja of Nagpur.

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