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boats with great labour over the rapids, and re-load above the

This

is

articles

falls

an expensive operation, and affects the prices of all imported above the falls to the extent of nearly a hundred per cent.

Barkallir {Braca/or of Faria-y-Souza Colloor of the Trigonometrical Survey Map; Barsalor of Horsburgh). A ruined town in South

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Kanara

District,

Madras Presidency.

Lat. 13° 50' N., long. 74° 53' E.

‘Once,’ according to Faria-y-Souza (An/ia/s, 1581-1584), ‘one of the

most noted places of trade in India, in the form of a commonwealth, but much decayed since the Portuguese built a fort there.’ Distant (direct) from Mangalore, 68 miles north from Bombay, 380 miles south-east; from Bangalore, 195 miles north-west; from Madras, 370

miles west.

— See B..urur.

Barkhera

{Bard, or Motd).

— Petty Estate or guaranteed

Thakurate Bhumia, has relations Sindhia. He holds from Dhar 3 villages in Dharmpuri, subject to a payment of ;^86, 12s.; from Sindhia he holds certain villages in the Sagor pargand, on which he pays ;^i 65 ; and also 5 villages in Dekthan, on which he pays ;j^i40. Barkhera {Chhotd, or Sorpur). Petty Estate or guaranteed Thakurate in the Bhil (Bheel) Agency of Central India. The chief, or Bhumia, pays to the Dhar State ^15 on 4 villages ; and is responsible for police

Agency of Central both with Dhar and with

in the Bhi'l (Bheel)

India.

The

chief, or

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duties in 15 villages jointly with the

Barkop.

— Village and group of

Parganas, Bengal.

another slope



They

Bhumia of Bara Barkhera.

9 miles north of Godda, Santal are four in number, nearly in line with one hills

the two central peaks being conical, while the outside ones

down

The

to the plain in long irregular ridges.

village is at the

and is the seat of the Rajas of Barkop. Barktir. Former Sub-division of Kanara, Madras Presidency, comvery hilly, and prising a portion of the western declivity of the Ghats This tract, at a remote traversed by numerous mountain streams. period of history, formed part of the Kadamba realm, overthrown, as It subsequently became tradition relates, in the 2nd century a.d. subject to Vijayanagar, but after the defeat of that power at Talikot In 1763, Haidar (1565), passed into the hands of the Bednur Raja. Ali absorbed Bednur, and after the death of his son, Tipu Sultan, the foot of the

hills,

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country was incorporated in the British dominions.

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Barklir {Hangarkatta). Village and port in South Kanara District, Madras Presidency. Lat. 13° 28' 30" n., long. 74° 47' 50" e. Exports The present town marks the (1880-81), ;!^47,87 o; imports, ;^i 7,896. site of a verj' ancient city, once the largest in Kanara, and even in As the stronghold of the the 16th century of considerable importance.

who obtained much interest for

Vijayanagar Rajas,

possession of

city possesses

the antiquary.

fort built

by Hari Har Raja, about 1370,

it

in 1335, the ruined

Traces of the great

still exist,

as also the tanks