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h Narmada

Yeotmal

Amradti

SOO Km

Route 2: The Local Trade Route
- through Chhattisgarh Forests

Route 1: The Great Cotton Route
- the hinterland through the
W. Central provinces

Main railway lines linking Mirzapur
to the cotton plains

Routes taken by Agarias and local
grain traders

Mirzapur
Rewah


Fig. 2. Map of India with the principal trade routes of the Central Provinces. Route 1 - The Great Cotton
Route - the hinterland through the West Central Provinces. Route 2 - The local Trade Route - through
Chhattisgarh Foreest. The main railway lines linking Mirzapur to the cotton plains. The Baiga region.
Routes taken by Agarias and local grain traders. □ Karte von Indien mit den Haupthandelswegen der
Zentralprovinzen. Route 1: Die grohe Baumwoll-Strafie - das Einzugsgebiet durch die westlichen Zen-
tralprovinzen. Route 2: Der ortliche Handelsweg durch die Chhattisgarh Walder. Die Hauptbahnlinie
zwischen Mirsapur und den Baumwollebenen. Wege, die von den Agarias und ortlichen Getreidehand-
lern benutzt werden.

mountains, the source of the Narmada and
Son rivers (Forsyth 1889, 371). Amarkantak
itself was a deep gorge of Gondwana and

Deccan Trap volcanic rocks that experienced
extreme soil denudation (Manual of Geology
vol. 1 1879-87). The gorge overlooked the