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OT-PO-OUDII. 479 ments. Population (1877) 37,707; (1881) 70,230. Gross revenue, £17.903. Ot-po.—Town in Henzada District, Irawadi Division, Lower Burma; situated in lat. 17° 48' N., and long. 95° 20' 10" E., on the Ka-nyin stream, 4 miles west of the Irawadi river, and 29 miles south of Myanaung Population (1881) 3212. Ouchterlony.-Valley in the Nilgiri Hills, Madras Presidency: — See OCHTERLONY. Oudh (Amudh). —l'rovince of British India, under the adniinistration of a Chief Commissioner, who is also Lieutenant-Governor of the North Western Provinces. It lies between 25° 34' and 28° 42' x. lat., and between 70° +and 83° 9' E. long. Area, 24,246 square miles. Population (1881) 11,387,741. Oudh is bounded on the north-east by the independent State of Nepál; on the north-west by the Rohilkhand ivision of the North-Western Provinces ; on the south-west by the river Ganges; on the south-east by the Benares Division; and on the east by Basti District. The administrative head-quarters are at Lucknow (Lakhnau), the capital of the former Kingdom of Oudh, and the main centre of population and manufactures. The table on following page exhibits the arca, population, etc., of the Province of Oudh according to the Census of 1881, with the land revenue for 1883-84. Physical aspects. - The Province of Oudh, the latest (until the annexation of Upper or Independent Burna in 1886) among the great kingdoms of India to fall under the direct authority of the British Government, fornis the central portion of the level Gangetic plain, stretching from the Ganges in the south-west to the foot of the Nepalese Himalayas on its north-eastern boundary. It thus intervenes between two sections of the previously acquired North-Western Provinces, cutting off the Rohilkhand Division from the densely populated country around Benares. Oudh presents throughout the monotonous features of a vast alluvial plain. In the extreme east alone, the British frontier extends close up to the lower slopes of the Himalayan system, embracing a portion of the damp and unhealthy submontane region known as the Tarai. For 60 miles along the northern border of Gonda and Bahraich Districts, the British boundary line skirts the foot of the hills; but westward of that point it recedes a little from the mountain tract, and the Tarai in this portion of the range has been ceded for the most part to the Native State of Nepal. A narrow belt of Government forest skirts the northern frontier, but all the rest of the Province consists of a fertile and densely-peopled plain, only 6 per cent of the surface being unfit for tillage. No striking features anywhere break the dead level of the horizon. Rivers forni the only obstacles to the direct