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There is a town school, court-houses, jail, postand a police station the District post from Dumagudiem to Rajamandri passes through the town. About 20,000 people, chiefly from the coast, attend the fair, held every April, when English and country cloth, sugar, opium, spices, hardware, etc., change hands to the value of about ^5000. of great antiquity. office, treasury,

Bhadrakh.



— Sub-division of Balasor

beUveen and 87° e. long. area, 909 square miles number of villages, 3009 number of occupied houses, 72,230; population (1881) 425,573, namely, 414,417 Hindus 20° 44'

and 21°

District, Bengal, lying

and between 86“

15' N. lat.,

18' 40"







Muhammadans, 66

(97 '3 per cent, of the population), 10,978

and 52 ‘others;’ number of males, 203,404, or 477 per population

—females,

square mile



222,169; average density of population, 469 per per square mile, 3 '3 ; houses per square mile,

villages

8 2 '8; persons per

Christians,

cent, of the

The Sub140; persons per house, 5 '9. ^^d comprises the thdnds (police circles)

village,

division was formed in 1847,

of Bhadrakh, Basudebpur, Dharmnagar, and Chandbali.

In 1883,

it

contained 4 magisterial courts, and a total police force of ion men, of whom 895 belonged to the village watch {chauk'iddrs and pdiks).

Bhadrakh.

— Head-quarters

town of the Bhadrakh Sub-division,

Balasor District, Bengal ; situated on the high road between Calcutta and Cuttack. Lat 21° 3' 10" n., long. 86“ 33' 25" e.; estimated popula(1870), 7801.

tion

Not

separately

shown

as a

town

in the

Census

Returns of 1872 or 1881.

Bhadreswar village,

in the

Most of the stone



(or Bhadravatl).

south-east of

—

Site of

Kachchh

an ancient

(Cutch),

architectural remains have been

but the place

is still

dome

interesting for

part of the

well,

and two mosques, one of the

A

removed

now

latter

a petty

Presidency. for building-

Jain temple, for the pillars

of a Sivaite shrine with an interesting

and

from the shore.

its

city,

Bombay

wdv

or

almost buried by drifting sand

very ancient seat of Buddhist worship; but the

now existing belong to temples erected subsequent to when one Jagadeva Sah, a merchant who had made a fortune

earliest ruins

1125

A.D.,

as a grain dealer in a time of famine, received a grant of Bhadreswar,

The in repairing the temple ‘removed all traces of antiquity.’ temple was a celebrated place of pilgrimage in the 12th and 13th At the close of the 17th century, the temple was pluncenturies. and

dered by the Muhammadans, and many of the images of the Jain Since then it has been neglected, and

Tirthankars were broken.

having fallen into ruins, the temple stones, and those of the old city were used for the building of the seaport town of Munra or Mundra. Described by Mr. Burgess in his ArchcEoIogical Survey of Western India. Bhadreswar. Town in Hugh' District, Bengal, situated on the

fort,

—

right

bank of the Hugh'

river,

and a

station

on the East Indian Railway.