CHITORE, or CHETORE, a Rajpoot district of Hindustan, in the province of Ajmeer, situated to the south-west of Joudpoor, and bordering on Gujerat and Malwah. The country is subject to the ranah of Chitore or Odeypoor, whose family is the most ancient and honourable of all the Rajpoot chiefs, though they at present possess little power. In modern times, the town of Odeypoor has become the capital of the district. The territory of the Odeypoor ranah is bounded on the north by the Ajmeer district and the chiefship of Kishenagur, on the north-west and west by Joudpoor, on the south and south-east by the province of Malwah, on the south-west by Gujerat, and on the north-east by Kotah and Bundee. The present territories of the prince are estimated at about seventy miles in length by a hundred and ten in breadth. The country is in general mountainous; but valleys are interspersed of great fertility, which yield sugar, indigo, tobacco, wheat, rice, and barley. The country contains also iron and sulphur mines. The lands are all held on feudal principles, every Rajpoot being a soldier, and holding his lands by the tenure of military service. The cultivators of the soil are all Hindus, of the tribes of Brahmin, Jaut, Bheel, and Rajpoot. Owing to the want of good pasturage, the cattle are smaller than in the neighbouring countries. They also breed a
number of sheep and camels. The revenues of the district have been much diminished, owing to the frequent incursions of the Mahrattas.