Crossword-Solution: DAMOH 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The 'Sâgar and Nerbudda Territories', comprising the Sâgar, Jabalpur, Hoshangâbâd, Seonî, Damoh, Narsinghpur, and Baitûl Mandlâ Districts, are now under the Local Administration of the Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces, established in 1861 by Lord Canning, who appointed Sir Richard Temple Chief Commissioner.

The chief joined the rebels in 1857, with the result that his dominions were confiscated, and distributed between the districts of Sâgar and Damoh in the Central Provinces, and Jhânsî (formerly Lalitpur) in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh.

There are no manufactures at Damoh, except such as supply the wants of the immediate neighbourhood; and the town is supported by the residence of a few merchants, a few landholders, and agricultural capitalists, and the establishment of a native collector.

The whole village thereupon flocked to the spot, and the body of the tanner was burned by his relations with the usual ceremonies, while all the rest were left to be eaten by jackals, dogs and vultures, who make short work of such things in India.[5] We had occasion to examine a very respectable old gentleman at Damoh upon the case, Gobind Dâs, a revenue officer under the former Government,[6] and now about seventy years of age.

The 'newly-acquired territories' referred to are the Sâgar and Nerbudda Territories, comprising the seven districts, Sâgar, Jubbulpore, Hoshangâbâd, Seonî, Damoh, Narsinghpur, and Baitûl, ceded in 1818, and now included in the Central Provinces.