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 BAXAR—BAXAR CANAL.

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New

only a wing of a regiment.

and

substantial barracks, with stone walls

iron roofs, have recently been constructed,

Two

fortifications.

and form

part of the

regimental market-places are situated at the west

fort, and half a mile to the north is a Bhutia village, with about 200 inhabitants. Water is obtained from two perennial streams, one of which issues from the base of the plateau.

of the

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Baxar {Baksdr). Sub-division of Shahabad District, Bengal, lying between 25° 15' 45" and 25° 42' 30" n. lat., and between 83° 48' 30" and 84° 24' 15" E. long.; area, 656 square miles; number of villages, 888; number of occupied houses, 59,433 population (1881)423,193, namely, 395,153 Hindus, 27,869 Muhammadans, and 171 Chris;

tians

per

average density of population, 645 per square mile ; villages mile, i'35 ; houses per square mile, io5‘i7; persons



square

per village, 475 ; persons per house, 7T2. The Sub-division consists of the thdnds (police circles) of Baxar and Dumraon. The administrative staff consists of a District Magistrate, with 5 DeputyMagistrates, District judge, sub-judge, additional judge, and 3 munstfs.

There

is

over 6

civil

bench of honorary magistrates. These officers preside and revenue, and 6 criminal courts strength of regular police, 276 men, besides 1478 village watchmen and road police. Baxar. Town on the south bank of the Ganges, in Shahabad Lat. District, Bengal, and head - quarters of Baxar Sub - division. also a



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25°

34'

namely,

24"

long.

N.,

84°

12,818 Hindus,

o'

3512

46"

E.

Population

(1881) 16,498, Christians

Muhammadans, and 168

Municipal revenue in 1881-82, ^^586. There is a Railway here distance from Calcutta, 411 miles. Considerable traffic is carried on both by rail and river, principally in sugar, cotton, piece-goods, and salt. The place is famous

and

others.

station of the East Indian

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by Sir Hector Munro of Mi'r Kasi'm, the last independent Nawab of Murshidabad, in a battle which finally won the Lower Provinces of Bengal for the British (Oct. 22nd, 1764). Baxar is a place of great sanctity, and is said to have been originally called as the scene of the defeat

the womb of the Vedas,’ as many of the inspired writers hymns lived here. A Government stud depot, maintained here for some years, has recently been discontinued. Baxar Canal. A branch of the Main Western Canal of the Son (Soane) Canal system, which leaves the Main Western Canal at the twelfth

Veddgarbhd,

‘

of the Vedic

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mile from the head-works at Dehri, and runs in a northerly direction until Lat. 25° i' to 25° 35' 30" n., long. 84° 2' it joins the Ganges at Baxar. to 84° 8' E.

It is

designed for navigation as well as irrigation, and

maintained on it by Government for the conveyance of goods and passengers ; minimum width, 47 feet at base and 75 The feet on water-line, with depth of 7 feet and side slopes of 2 to i. total length of the canal in 1882 was 45 miles, with numerous minor a line of steamers

is