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 — BARIGURA—BARKAL RAPIDS.

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canal waters portions of Gurdaspur, Amritsar, and Lahore Districts, and has been largely instrumental in the substitution of cotton, sugarcane, and superior cereals for the common food-stuffs which were formerly almost the only crops grown on this thirsty tract. It has also induced a steady improvement in methods of agriculture, the uncertainty of the water supply in previous years having been the main drawback to the industrious peasantry ; while the danger of famine in the three irrigated Districts may now be considered as far less imminent

than formerly.

— Town of Rewah Native State Barisal. — The head-quarters Sub-division Barignra.

India

Baghelkhand, Central

in

Population (1881) 6625.

Bengal, lying between 22° 28' and 22° 40' n.

45" and 90° 37' 45"

District,

and between 90° 13' iiii square miles; number of

long.; area,

E.

of Bakarganj

lat.,

number of occupied houses, 100,034; population (1881) 814,595, namely, 499,487 Muhammadans (or 61 '32 per cent, of the population), 311,485 Hindus, 3491 Christians, villages

and

towns,

1982;

59 Buddhists, and 73 ‘others;’ number of males, 410,475, females, 404,120; average density of population, 733 per square mile; houses per square mile, 94 ; persons per occupied house, 8. The Sub-division

was established

in

1801



it

comprises the 6 thdnds (police

circles)

of

and Gaurnadi. In 1882, there were 7 magisterial and revenue courts, and the total police force, including village watchmen, numbered 2292. Barisdl. Town and civil station of Bakarganj District, Bengal, on the west bank of the Barisal river. Lat. 22° 41' 40" n., long. 90° 24' 30" E. Population (1881) 13,186, namely, 6828 Muhammadans, 6041 Hindus, and 317 ‘others.’ Area of town site, 3756 acres. Municipal income in 1880-81, ;£i2o6-, expenditure, ^121’]. The Barisal,

Jh^lakati,

Nalchiti,

Bakarhanj,

Mehndi'ganj,

—

head-quarters of the District, formerly at Bakarganj, were transferred to Barisal in 1801.

Bariya.

— State

Barkal

Hills.

cipal peak, Barkal height.

The

in

Rewa Kantha, Bombay

— Range Tang

hills are

in the

(lat.

Presidency.

See Baria.

Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bengal

22° 45'

n., long.

92° 22'

covered with dense jungle



e.),



prin-

1879

the ascents are very

and can only be made along known zig-zag paths. Wild elephants, however, reach the summits and if proper paths were cut through the jungle, laden animals could doubtless do the same. Barkal Rapids. A succession of low falls and long rocky slopes, steep,



—

about a mile in length, forming part of the course of the Karnaphuli river, in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bengal. Lat. 23° 43' N., long. 92° 26' E. The falls are 20 miles above Kasalang, a place distant about TOO miles from the mouth of the Karnaphuli. They greatly impede navigation, as traders have to disembark their goods, drag their