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which the citadel of Adoni stands, in Bellary District, Madras Presidency. Height, 800 feet above the plain. Half-way up is a fine tank which is never drj-, and on the summit grows a fig-tree forming a landmark for 20 or 30 miles in every direction. Barakudu. A division {muttd) of the Godairi taluk, Vizagapatam

—

Madras

District,

villages, is

to

The

Presidency.

among

Godairi estate, containing

150

those proscribed by the Meriah Agency, as addicted

—

human sacrifice See Godairi. Barakulid Khal. — River in.

the Twenty-four Parganas, Bengal, forming part of the Outer Sundarbans Passage, one of the chief boat

routes by

means of which

the Eastern Districts.

watercourse,

artificial

connects the Barakulia with the Kalindf

Baral.

— River

in Rajshahi

in Bengal,

District.

police station,

and

It

on between Calcutta and

carried

traffic is

An

an important the

leaves

the Sahib Khali,

river.

offshoot

of the Ganges

parent stream near Charghat

flows eastwards through the southern portion of

passes into Pabna. It was formerly navigable throughout the year, but during the present century a sandbank has formed across its mouth, obstructing the free passage of water from the District, until

it

The Baral throws Musa Khan and the Xandakuja,

the Ganges for six or seven months of every year.

out two offshoots to the north, the the latter a river of

some magnitude, which

distance to the north of the Chalan

joins the Atrai a short

bil.

—

Bara Lacha. Mountain pass in Kangra District, Punjab, over the Western Himalayas, from Dareha in Lahiil to the Rupshii country in Ladakh. Lat. 32° 49' n., long. 77° 28' e. elevation above the sea,

16,500

feet.

cart road

Can be crossed by laden yaks and

ponies.

An

excellent

might be constructed without difficulty. Old raised road or alt in Sibsagar District, Assam Bar-Ali. Province, running from Nazira to Dikhu-mukh. Length, 22 miles; annual cost of maintenance, ;£ 204. Much of the original embankment, constructed by forced labour under the Aham dynasty, has been cut

away by

—

floods of the Brahmaputra.

Baramahal parts or

all

{''The

Twelve Estates

').

—A

former Division, including

of the Tripatur, Kistnagiri, Dharampur, Uttankarai, Osiir,

and Denkamkotai taluks of the present Salem and North Arcot Districts, Madras Presidency. Lat. 12° 5' to 12° 45' N., long. 78° 10' to 30' E. Twelve forts Krishnagiri, Jaya Rangarh, Varangarh, 79°

—

Kavalgarh, Mdhardjgarh, Biijangarh, Gajangarh, Kattiragarh, Tripatur.

Vaniambadi, Satharasangarh, and Thatukallu

on

either side of

it

ran the Ghats.

— protected

the tract, and

Originally part of the Vijayanagar

domains, and governed by the Anagiindi branch of that family, it passed in 1668 under Mysore rule. Early in the next century the Pathan

Nawabs

of Karpa possessed themselves of the Baramahal, but, after a