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 BA VRA—BA WAN.

2i8

miles; population (i88i) 39,356 ; gross revenue, hilly and well wooded, and the soil generally red.

which

local rainfall,

is

seldom

The land

is

In addition to the

deficient, four streams pass

through the

country above the Ghats, and two others water the villages lying at the foot of the hills. For purposes of irrigation, the water both of wells

and and

rivers

is

upland

raised, in the

tract, by the rope and leather bag, by the Persian wheel. From the strong

in the low-lying villages

damp wind and

excessive wet of the rainy season (June to October), the

climate of Bavra

is

The chief articles

of production are rice, and the usual varieties of grain

grown

in the

unhealthy, the prevailing disease being dysentery.

The

Deccan.

only water communication

of Vijayadriig to the village of Pomburle.

A

is

from the port

cart-road runs from Bavra

by a bridle-path down the Ghats, and so on to There are 6 schools with 240 pupils. The chief is a Hindu of the Bhadanekar family of Brahmans, and his title, Panth Amatya of Bavra. The late chief died on the 9th May 1867, and as he left no heirs, Madhav Rao Moreshwar, the present chief, was adopted on the 2nd April 1868 after attaining his majority, he was invested He is with the management of his estate on the 12th March 1881. assisted in the administration by a Karbari nominated by the Kolhapur Darbar. A yearly tribute of ^342 is paid to the Kolhapur State. Succession follows the rule of primogeniture, and there is no sanai authorizing adoption. The adoption of the present chief on the 2nd April 1868, was recognised by the paramount power as a special case. Bavra. Chief town in the Subordinate State of Bavra in Kolhapur to Kolhapur, continued

Vijayadriig.



—

State,

Bombay

Presidency

26 miles south-west of Kolhapur.



16° 32' 37" N., long. 73° 51' 27"

Lat.

E.

—

Baw {Bhaui). River in Pegu District, Pegu Division, British Burma, forming the boundary between Pu-gan-daung and Thanlyin circles.

After

it

leaves the network of channels occupying the central

portion of Thanlyin township,

it flows westward through a fertile riceproducing country, and eventually joins the Pegu river a mile above Syriam. At high tide, the river is navigable throughout its whole

length.

Bawal.

— Town

in

Bawal

tahsil,

Nabha

State, Punjab.

Population

(1881) 4781, namely, Hindus, 3180; Sikhs, 63; Muhammadans, 1529; and ‘others,’ 9; number of occupied houses, 527.

—

Bawan. Fargand in W^rdoi tahsU, Hardoi District, Oudh bounded on the north by North Sara, on the east by South Sara and Gopamau, on the south by Sandi and Bangar, and on the west by Barwan and A stronghold of the Thatheras, the ruins of whose Saromannagar.

fortress cover several acres of jungle. is

said to have occurred

deputed two Gaur chiefs

in

this

to

way

collect

The

expulsion of the Thatheras

—Raja the

Jai

Chand

of Kanauj

annual tribute from

the