AIMEER, one of the districts of Hindostan, directly under the government of India, lying between lat. 23' 43 and 20° 42, long. 74° 22' and 75' 33'. Its length from s.e. to n.w. is about 80 m.; breadth, 30; area, 2,601 sq.m. The surface of the country towards the s.e. is generally level. In the n., n.w., and w. it is broken by mountains and hills belong ing to the Aravulli range. The mountain of Taragnrh, above the city of A juicer, contains carbonate of lead, manganese, copper, and abundance of iron ore. The general elevation of the plain of A. is about 2000 ft., and the frosts in winter are sometimes severe. Strong breezes are prevalent, and the climate on the whole is healthy. The scarcity of water, however, often occasions great distress. The only permanent stream is the Rome, the water of which is so impregnated with mineral salts as to be unfit for alimentary use except during the rains. To compensate for this deficiency, water-tanks are numerous.
The staple crop is bajra (kolcus spicatux). Sheep are reared in great numbers, and wool is cheap, affording the material of their clothing to the lower orders. Among the more prevalent diseases are small-pox and ophthalmia. The pop. in '72 was 316,032, of whom about 40,000 were Mussulmans, etc., the rest Ilindoos. The princrpal race are the Rajpoots, the conquerors of the native Bheels, .Mhairs, and Neenas. The present limits of this district by no means correspond to its former importance. In the 12th c., at the time of the Mussuhnan invasion, the sultan of A. and Delhi was the most powerful monarch iu India. Under Akbar also, who acquired this territory in 1559, A. was a large and important province. It afterwards fell into the hands of the 31ahmttas, from whom it was wrested by the British in 1817.