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 BHADRl—BHA GALPUR,

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Lat. 22° 49' 50" N., long. 88° 23' 30" e. Population (1881) 9246, namely, 8671 Hindus, 547 Muhammadans, and 28 ‘others.’ Area of town site, 1920 acres. Municipal income in 1881, ;^542 expendi;


 * ^ 544

One

-

Principal staples

—

—

of the

rice,

chief

trading places in

paddy, oil-seeds,

Hugh

District.

and piece-goods. Oudh, on the road from

salt, pulses,

Bhadri. Town in Partabgarh District, Bihdr to Mankapur, 28 miles from Allahabad. Population (1881) 1255, namely, Hindus, 1163, and Muhammadans, 92. Hindu temple; village school ruined fort.

Bhddron.

—Town

Bombay

State,

in

Gujarat (Guzerat), within the limits of Baroda Lat. 22° 21' 30" n., long. 72° 56' 30" e.;

Presidency.

population (1881) 4718. Head-quarters of the Sisva petty sub-division. The cultivation of tobacco is the chief agricultural occupation, and there

a

is

dency,

Vernacular school and two dharmsdlds.

trade in grain.

fair

Bhadwa.

— Petty State

consisting

in Hallar District, Kathiawar,

Bombay

i

Revenue, ^iioo; total tribute, British Government, and ;;^24 to the Nawab of Junagarh. village,

Bhagwa;

Bhadwan^. I’residency payers.


 * ^ioo

22°

lat.

5' n.,

—Petty State

consisting of



Estimated revenue, is

Presi-

independent tribute-payer.
 * ^i63, of which £^2)9 is paid to the

of 4 villages, with

in 2

Chief

long. 70° 57' e.

Jhalawar District, Kathiawar, Bombay with 3 independent tribute-

villages,

^554;

tribute,

total

paid to the British Government, and

^8,

^ro8,

6s. to

the

of which

Nawab

of

Junagarh.

Bhaga.

—

Mountain river in the head-quarters Sub-division of Kangra Punjab (lat 32° 33' 15" to 32° 45' 30" N.,long. 77° i' to 77° 26' 15" E.), and one of the head-waters of the Chenab rises among the snowbeds on the north-west slopes of the Bara Lacha Pass ; flows for 30 miles through wild and rocky uninhabited hills, hemmed in by broken cliffs District,





then reaches a

fertile

cultivated valley, with large arable tracts interven-

ing between the channel and the mountains village of Lihul,

down,

at Tandi'.

and

finally joins the

The



passes Kailang, the chief

Chandra

about 5 miles farther name of

united stream thenceforward bears the

Chenab. Total length, 65 miles; average fall, 125 feet per mile. Bhagabatipur. Village and police station in Bard wan District,

—

Bengal.

Lat. 23° 42' n., long. 88°

Bhdgalpur.

5'

30"

e.

—A Division or Commissionership under the Lieutenant-

Governor of Bengal, lying between 23° 45' and 26° 35' n. lat., and between 85° 40' and 88° 35' e. long. It comprises the Districts of

Bhagalpur, the Santal Parganas, Maldah, Monghyr, and Purniah all of which see separately. Bounded on the north by the independent State of Nepal, and Darjiling District on the east by the Districts of Jalpdiguri, Din^jpur, and Rajshahi on the south by the Districts of Murshidabad, Birbhum, Bardwan, and Manbhiim and on

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