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 BARAMULA—B ARANA GAR.

122

square mile, 79 ; persons per house, 5'4. The principal village and the residence of the Raja is Baramba, in the centre of the State (lat. 20° 25' 15" N., long. 82° 22'4i"e.). The only other villages in the State worthy of notice are Gopinathpur, Maniabandh, and Banamalipur all on the Mahanadi. At the two last-named villages trading fairs are held twice

—

The Mahanadi

a week.

affords excellent water-carriage,

timber and bamboos are floated

down

and logs of and Puri

the river to Cuttack

Districts.

—

Baramula. Mountain gorge in Kashmir State, Punjab, through which the Jhelum (Jehlam) river passes. Lat. 34° 10' n., long. 74° 30' e. The town of Baramula stands on the right bank of the river, here spanned by a bridge of eight piers.

— Tahsil

Baran.

Western Provinces

or Sub-division of Bulandshahr

known

District,

North-

Bulandshahr tahsil. Lies in the centre of the Dodb plain ; intersected throughout by the Kali Nadi, and in two places by branches of the Ganges Canal. Area, 478 square miles, of which 346 are cultivated. Population (1881) 262,901 ; land revenue at time of settlement, ^35,346; total revenue, ;^39,o33

also as



by cultivators, ^90,585. The administrative staff consists of a 77iunsif and tahsilddr, and four honorary magistrates, besides an executive engineer and deputy magistrate attached to the Canal Department. These officers preside over i civil and 8 criminal courts. rental paid

Number

of police stations {thd/ids), 6; strength of regular police, 62 men; watchmen {chaukiddrs), 558; municipal and town police, 106. Baran. Head-quarters town of Bulandshahr District, North-Western Provinces See Bulandshahr. Baran. Town in Kotah Native State of Rajputana. Population

village

— — —

.

(1881) 7714.

Baranagar.

— Town on the Hugh'

river, in

the District of the Twenty-

four Parganas, Bengal, about a mile north of Calcutta.

Formerly the

and during the greater part of last century Dutch vessels anchored here on their way to Chinsura. Here, says a document of that period, the Dutch Company’s pigs are killed. Hence perhaps the name, from bardha, a pig although one local legend connects the place with the Boar-incarnation of Vishnu, and another with a chief called after that avatdr of the god. Old Dutch tiles of artistic design are still found in some of the native architecture in the neighbourhood. Ceded by the Dutch Government to the English in

seat of a

Dutch

factory,



Originally

1795.

town

known

it is

said to have been a Portuguese settlement.

The

North Suburban Municipality of Calcutta. It contained a population in 1881 of 29,982, namely, Hindus, 25,753 Muhammadans, 4144; ‘others,’ 85. Area of town site, 4480 acres. 20 16. Municipal income in 1880-81, expenditure, Baranagar is a rising town and a place of considerable trade. The riveris

also as the