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 — BENI—BERHAMPUR. countries, enables the cost.

Government

to perform

its

323 functions at a small

has brought courts very near to the door of the peasant, and

It

has established a system of registration by which proprietary rights and

and ascertained. A great department works has spread a network of roads over the country, connected Bengal by railways with other parts of India, and is endeavouring to control the rivers and husband the water supply, on which the safety of a tropical people depends. An organized system of emigration watches over the movements of the landless classes, from the overcrowded or unfertile Districts of the west to the rich underpopulated territories on the east, and to colonies beyond the seas. transfers are cheaply recorded

of public

and a well - equipped medical department, combat the diseases and epidemics which from time immemorial have devastated the Delta, and to place the operations of European surgery within the reach of the poorest peasant. Beni. Town in Tiroha tahsU, Bhandara District, Central Provinces ; situated on the Waingangd river, about 50 miles north-east of Bhandara Charitable dispensaries,

struggle

to

—

town.

Population (1881) 2439, namely, Hindus, 1898; Kabirpanthi's, Jains, 2; aboriginal tribes, 51; number of

416; Muhammadans, 72;

Small trade in locally-manufactured cotton cloth.

houses, 247.

The

dyers of the village are noted for the excellence of their colours, and Village school.

for their tasteful patterns for carpets, etc.

—

Beniganj. Town in Hardoi District, Oudh 21 miles south-east of Hardoi Town, and 16 miles north of Sandila. A thriving Ahir village of 2483 inhabitants (1881), and 386 mud houses; police post; Government school ; weekly market.

Beni Rasiilpur.

—Village

Purniah

in

the Kankai river; distant from

Kadba

26 miles.

Lat. 25° 37' n., long. 87° 52' e.

village

in

the

buildings,

and

landholders.

Benugarh.

District

with

a



Beni Rasulpur

considerable

number

Muhammadan

the residence of the

is

Bengal situated on and from Purniah town

District,

6 miles,

is

the only

of

masonry

zamtnddrs or

—

Fort in the Krishnaganj Sub - division of Purniah Bengal Only the foundations and portions of the walls remain, and the history of this and other ruins in the neighbourhood is involved in obscurity. The fort is one of five which, according to local legend, were built in a single night by five brothers. Brahmans, District,

who

are said to have lived in the Vikramaditya period, or about 57 b.c. See Hyderabad Assigned Districts.

Berar. Berdi.

— Town

in

Sausar

iahstl,

Muhammadans, 57 Jains, Taluk in Ganjam Berhampur.

panthfs, 8

Chhindwara

District,

Population (1881) 2504, namely, Hindus, 2428;

Provinces.

Houses, 54,348

—





5



aboriginal tribes,

District,

Central

Kabfr-

6.

Madras Presidency.

population (1881) 303,303, namely, males 146,853,