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BEDDADANOL—BEHAR. Beddadanol.

— Village

Godavari

in

223

Madras Presidency and coal-bearing

District,

situated in the centre of the only Barakhar sandstones

formation of the Presidency (a small

field 5^ square miles in extent), 38 miles north-west of Rajamahendri (Rajahmundry), and 4 miles from the boundary of the Nizam’s Dominions. Bedla. Town in Udaipur (Oodeypore) State, Rajputana. Situated about 3 miles north of the capital of the State, and the residence of a first-class noble, owning 6i villages. Bednor. Town in Udaipur (Oodeypore) State, Rajputana. Situated

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about 93 miles north-west of Udaipur town. State, who owns 60 villages, resides here.

Beehea. —Village — See Bihiya.

and railway

station,

A

first-class

Shahabad

noble of the

District,

Bengal.

See Birbhum. Meerut (Merath) District, North-Western Provinces; distant 14 miles from Meerut city, and 28 miles from Delhi, station on the Sind, Punjab, and Delhi situated on Grand Trunk Road

Beerbhoom.

Begamabad.

District of Bengal.

—Town

in



Lat. 26° 54' 38" N., long. 81° 53' 35"

Railway.

Population (1881)

e.

The town 2253, namely, Hindus, 1931; and Muhammadans, 322. contains a handsome temple built by Rani Bala Bai of Gwalior ; a ruined mosque

built

by Nawab Zafar

ground, police station, supply



village police of 6

servancy purposes

BegU

Sarai.

between 25°

15'

is

Ali, the

founder of the town

post-office, telegraph, school,

men.

A

encamping good water police and con;

bazar

small revenue for

raised under the provisions of Act xx. of 1856.

—Sub-division

and 25° 46° 30"

of n.

Monghyr lat.,

District,

Bengal,

and between 85°

lying

and

51' 45"

769 square miles; number of villages, 1623; number of occupied houses, 75,061 ; population (1881) 583,426, namely, 529,140 Hindus, 54,260 Muhammadans, and 26 Christians and 86° 35'

E.

long.; area,

‘others’; average density of population, 759 per square mile; villages hou-es per square mile, 99 ; persons per village,

per square mile, 2'ii

358; persons per occupied house, 7^3. The Sub-division comprises the In 1881-82 it conthdnds (police circles) of Tegra and Begu Sarai. tained 3 magisterial and revenue courts, and a police force of 1098 men, Of the total area (769 of whom 1048 belonged to the village watch. square miles, or 492,160 acres), 52,800 acres are uncultivated, 340,000 are under food crops, and 99,360 under other than food crops.

of the chief indigo factories of

Behar.

— One

of

the

Monghyr

four great

lie in this

Most

Sub-division.

Provinces which

make up

the

Lieutenant-Governorship of Bengal, the remaining three being Bengal It lies between 23° 46' and 27° Proper, Orissa, and Chutia Nagpur. 29' N. lat., and between 83° 22' and 88° 35' e. long. The Province

comprises the two Divisions or Commissionerships of Patna and Bhagalpur,

and the twelve

Districts of Patna, Gaya, Shahabad,

Muzaffarpur,