Berar
otherwise known as the Hyderabad Assigned Districts, a province of India, in the Deccan, under the British Resident at Hyderabad; area, 17,718 square miles, consisting chiefly of an elevated valley at the head of a chain of ghauts. It is watered by several affluents of the Godavari, and by the Tapti, and has a fertile soil, producing some of the best cotton, millet, and wheat crops in India. The two principal towns of Berar are Amráoti and Khamgaon.
Pop. about 3,250,000. Coal and iron ore are both found in the province. Berar BERBERS was assigned by the Nizam to the British Government in 1853, as security for arrears due. In 1902 the province was leased to Great Britain in perpetuity and attached to the Central Provinces administration.