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 BAJ^A GAI—BARAHTIYA. of

hills in

Cuttack

At the

District, Bengal.

ruined seat of the old

Hindu

117

foot of the

mountain

is

the

hill chieftain.

—

Bardgai (or Marang Bum ). A hill in Chutia Ndgpur, Bengal. Height above the sea, 3445 feet ; above the Chutia Nagpur plateau, 1300 feet; and above the Damodar valley, 2400 feet. Lat. 23° 32' 45" N., long. 85° 29' 45" E. There is a good deal of jum cultivation on the upper slopes of the hill.

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Baragaon (or Chit-Firozpur). Town in Ballia District, NorthWestern Provinces, lying on the banks of the Little Sarju river, 10 miles west of Ballia town on the Ghdzipur Road; lat. 25° 45' 4" N., long. 84° 2' 39" E. Population (1881) 10,847, namely, Hindus, 9892, and Muhammadans, 955; area of town site, 92 acres. An important agricultural centre.

Baragdon.

—Town

in Sftdpur District,

Oudh



17 miles north-west

from Sitapur town. Population (1881) 2081. Bi-weekly market, at which cotton, salt, and iron from the North-Western Provinces are sold, and also cloth and sugar of local manufacture. Annual value of sales

Government school. Rangpur District, Bengal. Population (1881) 5668, namely, Hindus, 4571, and Muhammadans, 1097; area, 2655

estimated at


 * j^ 5785.

Baragari.

— Town

in

acres.

Bara Haldibari.

—Town

Kuch Behar

in

State, Bengal.

Population

(1881) 5230, namely, males 2761, and females 2469. Barah. Tahstl of Allahabad District, North-Western Provinces, in

—

Jumna (Jamuna),

a rugged country south of the the

Kaimur

Area,

Hills.

25

2

'2

stretching

upward

to

square miles, of which i2i’5 are

cultivated; population (188 j) 53,430; land revenue,

^13,058; total The tahs'il

revenue, ;^i4,664; rental paid by cultivators, ^20,ot,2.

contains one criminal court, with two police stations (thdnds)

of regular police, 25

men;

village

watchmen

—



strength

{chauk'iddrs), 132.

Barah. Village in Allahabad District, North-Western Provinces, and head-quarters of Barah tahs'il., distant about 5 miles from the Jasra An station on the Jabalpur branch line of the East Indian Railway. inconsiderable village, with a population in 1881 of 1965. sole importance

its

from being the head-quarters of the

It derives It also

tahs'il.

contains a second-class police station, school, and post-office.

—

Barah. Rural town in Ghazi'pur District, North-Western Provinces, on the alluvial plain of the Ganges. Lat. 25° 30' 30" n., long.

lies

In 1881, 83° 54' 15" E.; area, 139 acres; population (1872) 5424. the population had decreased to below 5000, and the town is not returned separately in the Census Report.

Barahtiya. Bengal. females.

— Town

Population

in

Chittagong Sub-division, Chittagong

(1881)

5043, namely,

2242

District,

males and

2801