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BARDOLI—BARD IVAiV.

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villages, there being no alienated villages which forms a richly - wooded plain, with stretches of grass land covered with date, palm, and babul trees. is

occupied by Government the

in

Sub-division,

Towards the west, the Sub-division has the benefit of the sea-breeze, and is well supplied with water. The climate of the eastern part is hotter and somewhat feverish. The rates of assessment introduced in 1864-65 remain in force until 1893-94. Contains 124 villages. Bardoli. Chief town of the Bardoli Sub-division of Surat District,

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Bombay

Presidency.

Lat.

21°

8'

N.,

long.

ordinary Sub-divisional, revenue, and police post-office

73°

9'

offices,

e.

Besides the

the town has a

and a dispensary.

Bardwan

(sometimes spelt Burdwan, correctly Vardhamdua ).

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Division or Commissionership under the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, lying between 21° 35' and 24° 35' N. lat., and between 86° 35' and 88° 32'

45"

7,393,954

E.

long:

souls.

area,

13,855

Comprises the

square miles. six

Districts

Population of

Howrah, Midnapur, Bankura, and Birbhum

(1881)

Bardwan, Hugli, (all

of which

see

bounded on the north by the Districts of the Santal Parganas and Murshidabad, on the east by the Districts of Nadiya and the Twenty-four Parganas, on the south by the Bay of BeiTgal and Balasor District, and on the west by Morbhanj State and Manbhiim and Singhbhum Districts. Number of towns and villages, 30,054 number of occupied houses, 1,407,761; unoccupied houses, 132,940; The population consists of 6,208,208 Hindus (83 9 total, 1,540,661. separately).

It is



per cent, of total population); 957,630 Muhammadans; Sikhs, 44; Christians, 4460; Buddhists, 363; Brahmos, 28; Jains, 3; Jews, 16; Parsi's, 3; and ‘others,’ 223,199, of whom 217,254 were Santals, the

remainder consisting of other unspecified aboriginal tribes. Average density of population, 534 per square mile; villages per square mile, 2 '1 7; houses per square mile, iii'2o; persons per village, 246, per house, 5'25.

Number

of males, 3,606,699, or 48 6 per cent, of the

Government land revenue, including

local rates and on the land, ^^899, 345, or an average of 2s. o-|d. per acre Total rental j)aid by cultivators, ^1,989,672, including of gross area. cesses, or an average of 4s. 5|d. per acre of total area. A British District under the LieutenantBardwan {Burdwan). Governor of Bengal, lying between 22° 55' and 23° 53' n. lat., and between area, 2697 square miles. Population, 86° 52' and 88° 30' e. long. according to the Census of 1881, 1,391,823 souls. It is bounded on the north by the Santal Parganas, and by Birbhum and Murshidabad Districts; on the east by Nadiya District, the boundary line for nearly the whole distance being formed by the Bhagirathi or Hugh' river on the south by the Districts of Hugh', Midnapur, and Bankura and on the west by Manbhum.

total population.

cesses levied

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