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 BHADBHUT—BHADRA.

33S

half of which the chief keeps for himself, the other half being paid to

The

Sindhia.

chief holds the

The

estimated at jQ^oo.

during his minority the

title

of Thakur

affairs



his annual

Madho

present chief,

Singh,

is

income is a minor;

of the State are carried on through a

Kdmddr, under the superintendence of the Political Assistant at Guna. Chief town, Bhadaurd. Lat 24° 47' n., long. 77° 28' e. Bhadbhut, Village and place of pilgrimage in the Broach Sub-division, Broach District, Bombay Presidency ; on the north bank of the Narbada, and about 8 miles from Broach city. A fair is held in honour of Mahadeo, under the name of BhMeshwar, during August-September, and lasts through the entire intercalary month, an event which happens

—

once

in every nineteen or

On

twenty years.

the last occasion, in 1871,

began on the 17th August and went on till the 14th September, and was attended by 60,000 people. The ceremonies at Bhddbhut They do not form part of a course of pilgrimare of a special nature. ages, and at the close of the holy month the pilgrims return to their homes. There is a small temple here, which receives a yearly grant from Government of i8s. Bhadgdon. Town in the Pachura Sub-division, Khandesh District,

the

fair

—

Bombay

Presidency.

Lat.

20° 38' 30" n., long. 75° 16' e.

Situated

bank of the Gimd, river, 48 miles east of Malegaon, and 34 Population (1881) 6537, namely, Hindus, miles south-east of DhuliL Muhammadans, 1245; Jains, 26; and ‘others,’ 120; area of 5146; Municipal revenue (1880-81) ;^226; rate of town site, 91 acres. taxation, 8jd. per head of population municipal expenditure in the same year, ;^234. Bhadgaon has a sub-judge’s court, a dispensary, and a post-office, Government school, travellers’ rest-house, and is the headIn the quarters station of a revenue officer and a police officer. neighbourhood are the Government model farm and the Jamdha irrigation canal. Local trade in cotton, indigo, and linseed. The town suffered greatly from flood in September 1872, when about 750 houses were washed away. Bhadli. Petty State in North Kathidwar, Bombay Presidency, conon the

left



—

sisting of 15


 * ^26 oo;

villages, with 6

total tribute,

Government, and ;^25, Bhadli.

Lat. 22°

Bhadora.

i' N.,

— State

independent tribute-payers.

12s. to the
 * ^i36, of which


 * ^no,

Nawab

8s. is

Revenue,

paid to the British

of Junagarh.

Chief

village,

long. 71° 35' e.

under the Guna (Goona) Sub-Agency, Gwalior

—

See Bhadaura. Mysore State, which unites with its twin stream, Lat. 13° 10' to 14“ n ., long. the Tunga, to form the Tungabhadra. It rises in Kadur District, beneath the peak of 75’ 10' to 75° 40' E. territory.

Central India

Bhadra. — River

Ganga mula Tunga, and

in the

after

.

in

Western Ghats, not

flowing in

a

far

from the sources of the

north-easterly

direction

across

that