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BEA ULEAH -BEDANGA.

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banks, subject in flood-time to inundation from the central stream.

its

The main channel

broad and

is

ill

defined, full of islands,

5

feet

and expand-

The depth does not exceed

ing from time to time into wide pools. in dry weather, swelling to

country

flat-bottomed

throughout the year.

boats

No

15 feet during the rains. navigate this portion of the

Broad, stream

bridges span the Beas in the Districts of

Hoshiarpur or Gurdaspur. After touching Jalandhar District for a few miles, the Beas forms the boundary between Amritsar and the Kapurthala State. At Wazir Bholar ghat it is crossed by a railway bridge on the Sind, Punjab, and Delhi line the

and a bridge of boats on

maintained at the same place during the The channel shifts from year to year through the alluvial

Grand Trunk Road

cold season.

is

valley according to the action of the floods.

Finally, the Beas joins

the Sutlej (Satlaj) at the southern boundary of the Kapurthala State, after a

course of 290 miles.

total

It

ranks sixth in size

among

the

rivers of the Punjab.

Beauleah.

—Town

District, Bengal.

Beawar

{Beawr,

Rajputana.

and administrative

head-quarters

of

Rampur Beauleah. Naydnagar). Town in Ajmere-Merwara

Rajshahi

See

Lat.

—

26°

15"

9'

N.,

long.

(1881) 15,829, namely, Hindus, 11,236;

74°

23'

20"

e.



Division,

population

Muhammadans, 2241



Jains,

218; Parsi's, 7. Founded in 1835 by Colonel Dixon, Commissioner of Ajmere-Merwara, in the neighbourhood of the cantonments, Beawar rapidly grew into a prosperous town, owing to its advantageous position between Meywar (Udaipur) and Marwar The plan was regularly drawn out from the beginning, (Jodhpur). and sites allotted to various traders who applied for shops. Fine wide a stone wall surrounding the town houses streets, planted with trees Beawar has two hydraulic cotton presses of masonry, with tiled roofs. and is the chief mart of cotton traffic for the District manufacture of ironwork trade in dyeing, and opium, which last is produced locally. Post-office, dispensary It forms the only town in the Merwara tract. Municipal revenue in head - quarters of Assistant Commissioner. 1880-81, ^4031, or ss. id. per head of population within municipal

2127;

Christians,









Expenditure, ^^2634. Bechraji. Temple in the Pattan Sub-division of Baroda State, Bombay Presidency; 25 miles from the to^yn of Viramgam, in Ahmad-

limits.

—

District. Scene of a great religious festival in the month of Aswin (September-October), to which about 20,000 persons annually resort.

abad

Bedam.

— Estate

square miles



in

Ganjam

land revenue,

District,

—

Madras Presidency.

Area, 2

Town in Murshidabad District, Bengal. (or Belddngd). Lat 23° 56' 15" N., long. 88° 18' E. population (1881) 5455, namely, 3602 Hindus, 1851 Muhammadans, and 2 ‘others.’

Bedanga