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BETUL—BETWA.

334 in

862 villages and 40,699 houses average density of population, 71 ‘22 area under cultivation, 985 square miles ; amount of

per square mile

Government land revenue, with local rates and cesses, 2,949 ; rental, including cesses paid by cultivators, ^29,689, or ii;|d. per acre of cultivated area.

Betiil.— T own

in Betiil District,

head-quarters before their removal to 2 1°

51' 16" N., long. 77° 58' 7" E.

Central

Provinces, and

Badnur,

the civil

five miles distant.

Lat.

Population (1881) 4693, namely,

Hindus, 4332; Muhammadans, 210; Jains, 68; and aboriginal tribes, to the Kurmi and Maratha Brahman castes mostly agriculturists. Betiil has one school, a police outpost, an old fort, and an English cemetery. Brisk trade in pottery. Betiil was the 83, chiefly belonging

civil station

of the District, before

Betulpiudangadl

its

removal to Badnur.

{Veitatiapudiyarigadi ).

— Town

in

Malabar

10° 53' n., long.

75° 58' 15" e.

Situated two miles east of the Tiriir railway station.

Contains sub-

District,

INIadras Presidency.

magistrates’

and judges’

Lat.

courts, built with the materials of the palace

of the Betiilnad (Vettattanad) Rajas, destroyed byTipii Sultan in 1784. Between Betwa. River in Bundelkhand, Central India Agency. lat. 22° 55' and 25° 55' 45" n. long. 77° 39' 30" and 80“ 15' 30" e.

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Rises in Bhopal State, i| mile south of the large tank at

Bhopal

flows



south-east for 20 miles to Satapur, there takes a north-east course for

35 miles, crossing into Gwalior State, through which it proceeds in the direction for 115 miles; thence enters Lalitpur District, forming the boundary between British territory and Gwalior ; passes into

same

Hamirpur District, and finally falls into the below the town of Hamirpur. Total length, 360 miles. Chief tributaries, the Jamni, Dhasan, Kolahu, Pawan, and Barman. In the earlier part of its course it drains the Vindhyan Hills over a bed of sandstone below Jhansi, it flows upon a channel of granite; and 16 miles lower down arrives at the alluvial basin of the Jumna valley, through which it passes till it reaches the point of junction near Hamirpur. Above Jhansi, the river presents a wild and picturesque appearance and veins of quartz lying across its bed form barriers over which break several beautiful cascades. It is nowhere navigable, and of little use for irrigation rises and falls rapidly dry Ordinary flood during hot weather in upper portion of its channel. discharge, 200,000 cubic feet per second in high floods, 500,000 cubic The Betwa is crossed in various parts of its course feet per second. by the high roads from Nimach (Neemuch), Cawnpur, and Giina (Goona) to Sagar (Saugor), from Jhansi to Nandgaon, and from Banda A canal for to Kalpi. Crossings dangerous, and often impracticable. irrigating Jhansi District is now (1883) under construction, and a weir is being thrown across the Betwa, about 15 miles from Jhansi town. Jhansi,

and through

Jumna about

3 miles