Chota Nagpur

/ ˈtʃəʊtə ˈnɑːɡpʊə /

noun

a plateau in E India, mainly in Jharkhand state since 2000: forested, with rich mineral resources and much heavy industry; produces chiefly lac (world's leading supplier), coal (half India's total output), and mica

The river-valleys of Chota Nagpur are also known to have yielded a tribute of diamonds to their Mahommedan conquerors.

Manbhum district forms the first step of a gradual descent from the table-land of Chota Nagpur to the delta of lower Bengal.

In a district of Chota-Nagpur other than that in which Lievens labored, the conversions are still more pronounced.

Chota-Nagpur alone has another 102,000 and the number could be doubled if twenty new missionaries were on the spot.

The number of divisions or commissionerships is 6, of which Chota Nagpur ranks as “non-regulation.”

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