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BANSKHALI—BANS WAR A. consisting of a mass of

mud

huts, dotted here

a mosque, or the brick-built house of

some

lOI

and there with a temple,

The

grain merchant.

local

Raja resides at Narkatha, on the opposite side of the river. The Bansi Rajas formerly resided in Bansi itself, and the remains of their castle occupy a high site in the south-east corner of the town. In the midst of the ruins rises a great fig-tree (the supposed abode of a demon, the ghost of a Brahman, who did a former Raja to death, and drove the family from their ancestral residence) which is now an object of worship. Two weekly fairs are held. Several unmetalled roads from Nepal, Basti, Domariaganj, Bankala, and elsewhere, converge upon the town ; and the Rapti is crossed by a ferry. During the last thirty years, the prosperity of Bansi, which was formerly a considerable entrepot for grain, has declined, although a fair local business

on at the weekly markets. of the town stands the small and

carried

About a hundred yards fort-like

office,

Government

The water supply much from goitre.

Banskhall.

—Village

export trade in gives

its

name

in

Lat.

rice.

of the town

Chittagong

District,

is

other public

and

and

very bad, and the

Bengal,

22° 50' 15" N., long. 91° 31'

to a police circle {thdnd),

still

?nunsif’s court, post-

school, sardi or native inn, staging bungalow,

branch dispensary. inhabitants suffer

The

tahsili.

buildings consist of a first-class police station,

is

north-east

with

The

e.

small

place

also to a small canal

and

an embankment. Bansloi.

—Tributary of the Bhagfrathf

river,

Bengal, rising

in

the Santa!

Parganas, and flowing a generally eastern course through Bfrbhum and

Murshidabad Districts till it falls into the Bhagirathi opposite the large commercial town of Jangipur. Navigable during the rainy season by As its name implies, it was largely utilised for boats of 2 tons burden. floating down rafts of bamboos, till the neighbouring hills became almost denuded.

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See Bhainsror. Bansror. Fort in Rajputdna Bansura. Town in Sitapur District, Oudh, on the right bank of Population (i88i) the Chauka river; 39 miles from Sitapur town. Government opium warehouse, school, tri-weekly market. 2293. Bdnswara {Wasnwdra ). State in Rajputana, under the Mewar Political Agency, bounded on the north and north-west by Dungarpur and Meywar, on the north-east and east by Partabgarh, on the south by petty States of the Central India Agency, and on the west by the RewaKantha States of the Bombay Presidency between 23° 10' and 23° 48' n. and between 74° 2' and 74° 41' e. long. Length from north to lat., and breadth from east to west, about 33 miles south, about 45 miles area, about 1300 square miles. On the north and east the boundary is marked by the Mahi river. The western portion of the State is open and well cultivated, and its inhabitants are chiefly a settled population of.

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