CHAPTER VIII

POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY

FOR purposes of administration the 965,000 square miles
of territory which constitute British India are divided into
eight leading provinces, each of which is under its own

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local government, and certain smaller divisions. The
provinces include the old Presidencies of Madras and
Bombay, the Lieutenant-Governorships of Bengal, the
United Provinces (old “North-West” Provinces, with which
the Chief Commissionership of Oudh is combined), the