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 BARSOI—BARUL. Unao

Named

177

who

is said to have reclaimed His descendants are still in possession. Population (1881) 2044, namely, Hindus, 2015, and Muhammadans, 29. No market, and no local trade or manufactures. On the east bank of BarsOl. Village in Purniah District, Bengal. the Mahananda ; 34 miles from Purniah, and 8 miles from Balrampur. Lat. 25° 37' 15" N., long. 87° 58' 26" E. The village has one of the largest weekly markets in the District, which is numerously attended by people from a distance of two or three days’ journey. The chief

town.

after

Barsingh Deo,

the site from jungle in the fifteenth century.

—

articles

wholesale trade are

of

dried

fish,

tortoises,

{gur),

treacle

country-made cloth, chilies, turmeric, and onions. These commodities are bought in considerable quantities by paikdrs or petty traders, who Gunny-bags and mats, locally retail them throughout the District. The village is a manufactured, are also largely sold at the market. police outpost station.

Barndpura. Bharudpura. Baruipur.

— Thdkiu-ate

— Until

or

recently

Twenty-four Parganas

District,

a

petty State

in

Central

India

.

—-See

Sub-division of the District of the

Bengal; lying between 21° 30' 45" and

22° 30' N. lat. ; and between 88° 25' 15" and 88° 50' 45" e. long. Area, 442 square miles; villages, 808; houses, 28,822, of which 27,502 are Population (1881) 199,488, namely, Hindus, 136,097 ; Muoccupied.

hammadans, 62,310;

942; Buddhists, 15; Parsis, 4; and This Sub-division was abolished in March 1883,

Christians,

aboriginal tribes, 120.

and attached to the head-quarters Sub-division, the opening of the Diamond Harbour Railway rendering the courts at Alipur more accessible than those at Baruipur.

Baruipur

{^Village of Vix-growers

').

—Town

in

the

Twenty-four

Parganas, Bengal; situated 16 miles south of Calcutta, on the east

bank of the Adi Ganga, the now almost dry bed of the ancient channel Population (1881) Lat. 22° 21' 30" n., long. 88° 29' e. Municipal income in 3742, namely, 1895 males and 1847 females. small town police force is expenditure, ^441. 1881-81, ^367 of the Ganges.

A



Pan or betel-leaf is extensively grown in the village, name (pdrui, ‘/a;z-grower ’). It is a mission station of the

maintained.

whence

its

Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and has a church capable of

holding 700 people. Station on the Diamond Harbour Railway. Barul Barul. Iron ore field in Bardwan District, Bengal.

—

is a middle of the iron tract (lat. 23° 44' n., long. 87° 9' e.), and for the sake of convenience the name is applied to the whole field. On the north, Churulia; on the east, Jamsol ; on Bounded as follows the west and south, Satur, to within about half a mile of the village of Throughout this entire area, iron ore of excellent quality has Rajpur. According to a careful estimate made by a skilled been found.

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