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BARI—BARIA.

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Ahi'rs, who held the country till the when they were dispossessed by Pratip Singh, a convert to Islam, to whom a farmdn was granted by the Emperor Tughlak. Pratap Singh had three sons prior to his conversion, and

have been

Kachheras and

fourteenth century,

his Muhammadan wife. The descendants of the former are still in possession of some of their ancestors’ villages but the great bulk of his estate went to his Musalman son, whose descendants became the hereditary chaudharis of the pargand, and

one afterwards by

the present

A

title.

representative

who

Kshattriyas,

and

settled here about

facilities exist

76| are

of the

family

still

is

considerable portion of the pargand

for irrigation.

cultivated.

The

is

recognised by that

now

incidence of the Government land revenue

at the rate of 3s. 9|d. per acre of cultivated area, 2s.

of cultivable area, and

held by Bais

250 years ago. The soil is fertile, Area, 125 square miles, of which

2s.

i

q^d. per acre of total area.

(1881) 54,030, namely, 28,525 males and 25,505 females.

is

i|d. per acre

Population

Number

of

villages, 129.

—

Bari. Town in Sidhauli tahstl, Sftapur District, Oudh ; 23 miles south of Si'tipur town, and 29 miles north of Lucknow. Said to have been founded by Mubarak, son of the Emperor Humayun, who, having come to hunt in the Oudh jungles, built a shooting-box and country

house {ban) here, round which a town sprung up. Population (1881) Formerly the head-quarters of the 3102, residing in 565 mud houses. iahstl, which have been removed to Sidhauli. No trade or manufactures.

—

Village in Garhwal State, North-Western Provinces, on left Bari. bank of the Jumna (Jamund). Manufacture of woollen cloth. Lat.

30° 55' N., long. 78° 26' E.

Bari.

—Town

District of the

18 miles west

547 Baria.



Lat. 26° 38' n., long. 77° 42' e.

the territory.

11

in Dholpur State, Rajputana chief place of a small same name, situated among the hills in the south-west of

—from



distance from Dholpur,

Agra, 44 miles south-west.

Population (1881)

-

,

Bombay

— Tributary State

in Rewa Kantha, in the Province of Guzerat, Presidency, lying between 22° 21' and 22° 58' n. lat, and

between 73° 41' and 74°

18' e. long.; bounded east and west by the Panch Mahals, north by the States of Sanjeli and Sunth, and south by the State of Chota Udepur. Extreme length

British District of the

north to south, 39 miles. Estimated area, 813 square miles; popu(1881) 66,822, or 82'2 per square mile; gross revenue, ^18,237. The country is hilly in the south and east, but flat in the

lation

west,

and

is

divided into

7 sub-divisions,

forest.

The

climate

is

Randhikpur, Dudhia, Umaria,

and Rajgad. Much of it is covered with damp and unhealthy, fever being the prevailing

Haveli, Kakadkhila, Sagtala,