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 BARHAJ—BARI.

15 °

commands most

of the export trade in forest produce and dyes from

Police station and post-office and girls’ schools. Barhaj. Town in Deoria (ahsU, Gorakhpur District, North-Western Provinces, situated on the river Rapti, at the junction of several cross roads, 41 miles south-east of Gorakhpur town. Lat. 26° 16' 40" n., long. 83° 46' 5" E. A rising and prosperous trading town, and the chief trading mart in the District. The population, which in 1872 was returned at 4970, had increased in 1881 to 11,715, namely, 9944 Hindus and 1771 Muhammadans. Area of town site, 95 acres. The town has no feature of interest apart from its commercial importance. The streets are crooked and irregular, and the houses for the most part squalid. The river bank is covered wdth immense piles of wood part for exportation, part for boat-building, which is an active trade, and part for feeding the furnaces of numerous sugar factories. Sugar refining is carried on to a great extent. The town is also an important depot for The main imports the down country distribution of grain and oil-seeds. comprise iron, cloth, and salt. Bi-weekly market. Large religious

the Chhindhwara jdgtrddri estates.





boys’

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—

trading

fair in

October.

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Town in Bansgdon tahsil, Gorakhpur District, NorthWestern Provinces, on the north bank of the Gogra (Ghagra) river, 36 miles south-south-east of Gorakhpur town. Lat. 26° 17' n., long. 83° 33' 15" E. Population (1881) 5779, namely, 4241 Hindus and 1538 Muhammadans. The town, which covers an area of 90 acres, is surrounded by groves, and consists of a street of masonry shops lining the sides of the Azamgarh road, and with a neatly kept metalled marketLarge exports of grain to the Ganges ports. Great fair, known place. Barhalg'anj.

as Ramlila, held in October, attracts

some 2000

Government and

persons.

charitable dispensary, police station, school, travellers’ rest-house,

Imperial post-office.

A

small municipal revenue

is

raised under the

provisions of the Chauki'dari Act (xx. of 1856).

Barhampur. Barhi District,

— See Berhampore. —Village on the Grand Trunk

{Burhee).

Bengal, with

post-office,

dispensary,

Road

and

in

Hazaribagh

telegraph

office.

Communication by telephone with Hazaribagh town. Barhi. Town in Murwara tahsil, Jabalpur District, Central Pro-

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vinces. I ;

Population (1881) 2039, namely, Hindus, 1952



Kabi'rpanthi,

Muhammadans, Bari.

77 ; and Jains, 9. Formerly a tahsil or Sub-division of Sitapur District, Oudh,

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removed to Sidliauli, q.v. Pargand in Sidhauli tahsil, Sitapur District, Oudh bounded Bari. on the north by Pirnagar, on the east by Mahmudabad, on the south by Manwan pargands, and on the west by Sitapur District (the Sarayan river marking the boundary line). The early inhabitants are said to since