INDORE, a city on the left bank of the Katki, in Malwa, in lat. 22° 42' N., and long. 74° 54' E., and 1998 feet above the sea. It is the capital of the dominions of the maharaja Holkar. The state has an area of 8075 square miles, and popula tion about 635,000 souls, lying between lat. 24' and 24° 14' N., and long. 74° 28' and 10' E. It is nearly bisected by the Nerbadda river, and has the Chambal and its tributaries on the northern part. The state consists of many isolated tracts, and within it is the British cantonment of Mhow (Mau). It is bounded on the north by part of Sindia's dominions, on the east by the states of Dewas and Dhar and the district of Nimar, on the south by Kandesh district, and on the west by Barwani and Dhar. the rest of Malwa, the soil of Indore is fertile, consisting largely of the rich black loam known as cotton soil. The principal crops are wheat, rice, millets, pulses, oil-seeds, sugar-cane, cotton. The revenue
of the state in 1878, £512,300 ; the expenditure, £416,600. The Residency or Rajkumar College at Indore, for the education of the sons of the chiefs and gentry of Central India, is affiliated to the Calcutta University.
Indore was captured by the British on the 24th August 1804. As a city, it is of modern date. That part of the Holkar capital called Old Indore was a small village, the site of which pleased Ahalya Bai, who encamped at it after the death of Mulhar Rao Holkar. The dominant race in Indore are Mahrattas, and there are a considerable number of Gonds and Bhils. There are several cotton mills in the state of Indore (one belonging to the Maha raja), which are in constant work. Opium manu facture is another important industry, and in 1877-78, 16,243 chests were exported from Indore.