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  • noun an industrial city of central India to the southeast of Delhi

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Examples

  • Bharia-Bhumia tribe of Jubbulpore, which is itself derived from the

    The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894

  • Just before jump a money order arrived accompanied by a supercargo's form which showed the draft to be one eighty-third of Sisu's appreciation from Jubbulpore to Hekate -- as if, thought Thorby, he were a girl being swapped.

    Citizen Of The Galaxy Heinlein, Robert A. 1957

  • "Uh, it looks like a slaver that called at Jubbulpore twice a year."

    Citizen Of The Galaxy Heinlein, Robert A. 1957

  • He blinked at the cut of her clothes; he had seen fine ladies in Jubbulpore where the climate favored clothing only for decoration, but the choice in skin display seemed different here.

    Citizen Of The Galaxy Heinlein, Robert A. 1957

  • He admitted that he had just left the Guard, she had trouble understanding that he had not been an officer; he let it ride and mentioned nothing about Jubbulpore -- Leda had made him wary of the subject.

    Citizen Of The Galaxy Heinlein, Robert A. 1957

  • As far as I remember, I never had parents; I was a slave, several places and masters -- until I reached Jubbulpore.

    Citizen Of The Galaxy Heinlein, Robert A. 1957

  • Inside the circle was a great temporary stadium, larger than the New Amphitheater at Jubbulpore.

    Citizen Of The Galaxy Heinlein, Robert A. 1957

  • The gutter fighting he had learned in order to survive in Jubbulpore was lacking in rules.

    Citizen Of The Galaxy Heinlein, Robert A. 1957

  • Viceregal progress; passes the income tax against much opposition; marches through Central India; durbar at Jubbulpore; durbar at Lucknow; durbar at Allahabad; third durbar at Lucknow; loses his wife; leaves India; unjustly criticized; his character

    Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

  • _ -- A mixed caste of village watchmen of the Jubbulpore and Mandla Districts, who are derived from the cognate caste of

    The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

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