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BASINAKONDA—BASORHI.

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The most

striking buildings

troops and established a mint at Basim. are the temple

and tank of

about 100 years ago by The town has a post-office,

Balaji, constructed

Bhawani Kalu, a general of the Bhonslas. and two good Government

police station,

Municipal revenue

schools.

(1880-81) ^262 ; expenditure, ^384; incidence of municipal taxation, 5Jd. per head of population. A rock in the Madanapalli idluk, Cuddapah Basinakonda.

—

height, 660 feet above the town of Madras Presidency Madanapalli, or 2800 feet above sea level. On the summit stands a pagoda to Vekatashaswami, who is supposed to have placed one foot here while travelling to the sacred pagoda at Tripatti, the other foot resting on Gandikdt. Basi Tang (or Taung). Mountain range in the Chittagong Hill Principal peak, Basi tang (21° 31' n. lat, and 92° 29' Tracts, Bengal. District,



—

E. long.);

The

height, 2181 feet.

hills

are very steep, thickly covered

with jungle, and uninhabited.

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Baskhari. Town in Faizabad District, Oudh 9 miles west of and 50 miles south-east of Faizabad. Founded by a famous Muhammadan saint, named Makhdum Ashraf, about 1388 a.d., and

Birhar,

Population (i88i) 2471, in the possession of his descendants. namely, Hindus 1808, and Muhammadans 663 ; 3 mosques and 3 Hindu temples ; police station Government school.

still

Basoda.

— Native



State in the Bhopal Agency, under the agent to

the Governor-General for

Central

India



originally

a feudatory of

was seized by Sindhia, but was restored by order of the British Government, and all connection with Gwalior has since ceased. It pays no tribute, and is now directly under the British In 1817

Sindhia.

it

Government. The capital of the State 77 ° 55' descent.

The

E.

chief bears the

is

title

in

of

23° 50' 50" n.,

lat.

Nawab, and

is

and

long.

a Pathan by

Area, 22 square miles; population (1881) 7722, distributed and occupying 1362 houses; density, 353 persons per

in 19 villages,

square mile; revenue, ;^iooo.

The

military force consists of 3 guns,

8 artillerymen, 12 sowars^ and 60 policemen.

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Tract of country and town in Kashmir State, Punjab on the Ravi river, at the foot of the southern Himalayan chain. The town, which lies in lat. 32° 33' N., and long. 75° 28' E., contains a large irregular bazar, and a handsome palace of the Raja, moated and

BasoUi.

situated

turreted like a mediaeval castle.

The Rajas

of Basohli were formerly

independent, but were subjugated by the Sikhs in 1726 a.d.

Basorhi.

—Pargand

in

Bara Banki

District,

Oudh



bounded on the

north by Daryabad, on the south by Mawai Maholara, and on the west by the Kalyani river. Area, 34 square miles, of which 25 are cultivated, the principal crops being rice, wheat, and barley. 21 374 ,

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Population (1881)