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The Rajputana Gazetteer Vol. 3 (1880) Includes Gazeteer Of Meywar, Partabgarh, Sirohi And Mount Abu, Ulwur, 1880
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1GAZETTEER OF MEYWAR.
3GENERAL TOPOGRAPHY.
5Area.—Meywar, perhaps the eldest of the Rajput States, extends from 25° 58' 0" to 23° 49' 12" north latitude, and 75° 51' 30" to 73° 7' 0" east longitude. Its extreme length from north to south is 147·60 miles, and extreme breadth from east to west 163·04 miles, with a total area of 12,929·9 square miles.
7Configuration.—The configuration of the State is somewhat irregular, but it may be said to be bounded on the north by the British districts of Ajmer and Merwara; on the west by the Arvali mountains separating it from Marwar and Sirohi; on the south-west by the Mahikanta; on the south by the States of Dungarpur, Banswara and Partábgarh; and on the east by Búndi, Kotah, Sindia's districts of Jáwad and Nímach, and Nimbahera of Tonk: Kotah only touching a projecting point at Bhainsrorgárh, south of which lies Holkar's district of Rampura. To the south-east the territories of several States interlace; and portions of Tonk, Gwalior and Indor are encircled on all sides by Meywar territory. A number of villages belonging to Sindia, separated from each other by various distances and constituting the pargana of Gungapur, lie in the very centre of Meywar. The small pargana of Palsora, 12 miles south-east of Nímach, is the only part of Meywar entirely cut off from the main body of the country.
9The northern and eastern portions of the States comprise generally an elevated plateau of fine, open, undulating country, sloping gradually to the north-east, as shown by the course of the Banás and its numerous tributaries, which, all alike rising in the Arvalis and falling into the Chambal, finally find their way to the sea through the Ganges. Hills either solitary or in small clusters abound, and short ranges of various breadth are constant features of the landscape.
11The great watershed of India dividing the drainage of the Bay of Bengal from that of the Gulf of Cambay runs almost through the centre of Meywar, and may be described by a line drawn from Nímach on the east through Bara Sádri to Oodeypore, and thence rounding the sources of the Banás by the elevated
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