DAMOH, a town and district of British India, in the Jub bulpore division of the Central Provinces. The town of Damoh is situated on the railway from Katni to Bina, a branch of the G.I.P. railway, 48 m. E. of Saugor. It has small local industries and a large cattle market, and is a distributing and collecting centre for the district. Being situated below rocky hills it is decidedly hot. In pre-railway days its population was about 8,000, which had increased to 17,000 in 911. In 1921, owing to an epidemic, population fell to 15,296 but was 2o,728 in 1931. Damoh was looted by mutineers from Jubbulpore in 1857 and the district office was burnt.
The DISTRICT OF DAMOH is one of the smallest in the Central Provinces, having an area of 2,818 sq.m. and a population of 305, 568. It is one of the Vindhyan districts and on the north and north-east borders Bundelkhand. It is drained by the Sonar and Bearma rivers which flow northwards into the Ken, and thus eventually reach the Jumna. The district is mainly wheat pro ducing, but its agriculture is liable to severe vicissitudes of drought and excessive rain, and its population and prosperity have fluctu ated greatly. The central plain is rich and fertile but the areas to both the north and south are hilly and jungly. Its people, among whom Lodhis predominate, are turbulent in character. Agricultural losses have been responsible for a condition of in debtedness, for which special measures have at various times been taken. Dyeing, weaving, pottery and the manufacture of bell-metal utensils are the chief industries. Cattle slaughtering for the export of dried meat, bones, hides, horns and hoofs has been established near Damoh, the old and infirm cattle from long distances being brought in for slaughtering. Except for a little iron ore and sandstone for building, there is no mineral wealth in the district. There are notable temples at Bandakpur and Kun dalpur and there are old Hindu and Jain remains at Nohta.