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side is studded with villas, the suburban residences of wealthy native gentlemen and merchants of Calcutta. Two large jute mills are worked under European supervision but the chief article of trade is castor-oil, which is extensively manufactured in the town, and exported to Europe. Bara-pole {Bdrdhole ). River in Coorg, flowing westwards through the Madras District of Malabar into the Arabian Sea. It rises with the Lakshmantirtha and Papanishe in the Brahmagiri Hills in the Kiggatnad Sub-division of Coorg, and flows for several miles in almost a straight line. Its upper course lies amid deep gorges and wild forest

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scenery, one of

its

tributaries falling over a perpendicular rock of great

height, forming a beautiful cascade near the Kudial coffee estate.

Coorg frontier it also forms a seldom visited on account of the the

Its it

navigable from

its

mouth, near the

miles from the foot of the Ghats.

Cannanore

200

feet,

On

which

is

character of the country.

difficult

In the District of Malabar

drainage area covers 192 square miles.

is

On

fine waterfall of

village of Chirakal,

Its chief tributary is

up to 16

the Kallu-hole.

spanned by several bridges. District of the Twenty-four Parganas, Bengal, lying between 22° 36' 45" and 22° 57' 15" n. lat, and between 88° 25' and 88° 48' e. long. area, 389 square miles number of villages, 813 of houses, 50,220, of which 47,405 are occupied. Population (1881) 272,574, namely, 128,084 Hindus, 144,445 Muhammadans, and 45 Christians. Average density of population, 70070 per square mile; villages per square mile, 2‘o9; houses per square mile, i29‘io; persons per village, 335; persons per occupied house, 575. The Sub-division contains the thdnds (police circles) of Barasat, Deganga, Habra, and Naihdtf. It was formed in 1861, when the old District of this name was included in the Twenty-four Parganas. Barasat. Town in the Twenty-four Parganas, Bengal, and headthe road to

Barasat.

it is

— Sub-division of the

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quarters of Barasat Sub-division.

Lat. 22° 43' 24" n., long. 88° 31' 45" E.

Population (1881) 10,533, nam.ely, 5702 Hindus, Muhammadans, and 24 ‘others.’ Area of town site, 5760 acres. 4807 Municipal income in 1881, ^^820. Barasat was until 1861 the seat area,

5760

acres.

of a joint-magistrate, several pargands transferred from Nadiya and Jessor in 1834 being known as ‘Barasat District.’ In 1861 the jointmagistracy was abolished, and Barasat became one of the Sub-divisions

of the District of the Twenty-four Parganas.

opened Central Bengal Railway. In the there was a college here for cadets on their

Barasia River.

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A

station

on the newly

early years of the century, first arrival

branch of the Madhumatf

from Europe.

river in Jessor Dis-

Bengal ; flows north and south, leaving the parent stream at Khalpard and rejoining it at Lohagara. Length, 25 miles ; breadth in the rains, 230 yards. Navigable throughout the year by large boats. Petty State in Bundelkhand, also called Baraunda {Baronda). trict,

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