GANGPUR, a feudatory State of India, in the province of Bihar and Orissa. The country is for the most part an undulat ing plain, broken by detached ranges of hills. The rivers are the Ib and the Brahmani, formed here by the union of the Sankh and the South Koel. The State possesses considerable mineral resources. A large coalfield also extends into it; deposits of man ganese ore were first worked in 1908, and the output in 1921 was a little under 20,000 tons of ore ; dolomite and limestone quarries are also worked. The State has been opened up by the Bengal Nagpur railway, which runs through it for about 7o miles. Area, 2,492 sq.m.; pop. estimated revenue, Rs.6,66,000.