CHHINDWARA

[s. 160] : Chief town of a district in the Narbada division. Central Provinces, India. It is situated on a well-watered table land, 64 miles N. E. of Nagpur. The population is about 143 It 9,000, two-thirds of the people being Hindus. was occupied as a station by the Swedish National The present force Mi ionary Society in 1885. there consists of 8 mi ionaries, men and women (one being a physician), and 16 native workers, men and women. The various enterprises of the station are 3 elementary schools, an orphanage, a dispensary and theological school, besides the There are 83 profe usual preaching services. It is ing Christians connected with the station. also a circuit of the ME, with 3 native workers and 97 profe ing Christians. 161