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Bhandard has a

District court, post-office,

police head-quarters,

Government dispensary,

bungalow, assistant engineer’s

travellers’

public library, and Government zild school

two indigenous schools

Bhandaria.

Bombay

— Petty

and

for Marathi,

also a girls’ school,



for Persian

of Undsarviya

State

jail,

office,

and

and Urdu.

District

Kathiawar,

in

Presidency, consisting of one village, with three independent

Estimated revenue, ;^48o; a tribute of ^30,145

tribute-payers.

paid to the Gdekwar, and

— Ancient

Bhander. Provinces.

^i,

los. to the

town

bank of the Pahuj

river,

Jhansi

in

25” 43' 30" N.,

Lat.

Nawab

long.

District,

55"

78° 47'

is

of Junagarh.

North-Western

On

e.

the

left

Population

distant 24 miles from Jhansi.

Area of (1881) 5605, namely, 4804 Hindus and 80 r Muhammadans. town site, 208 acres. For police and conservancy purposes, a small revenue is raised under the provisions of Act xx. of 1856. Stands in the midst of picturesque rocky scenery, and spreads over the side of a West of the town, a large lake-like tank hill into the plain beneath. has been formed by throwing a dam across the bed of a stream flowing into the Pahiij. On the hill above, remains of tanks, wells, and temples, apparently

mark the ancient site of a Buddhist monastery like origin do service in the town as door-steps

carved granite stones of or

The

pillars.

principal mosque, built during the reign of Aurangzeb,

consists in large part of Buddhist columns.

Trade and population

declining under pressure of cholera and famine, which have caused tracts. The town contains many ruined Manufacture of kharua cloth, exported to Mau (Mhow), Gwalior, and Kalpi; also of white blankets. Police station,

emigration to more favoured or vacant houses.

school, grain

post-office, sar}'.

market,

considerable bazar, sardi,

dispen-

Bharauli, 3 miles south-east, has a temple of ancient date

still

unmutilated.

Ehandeswar. rising abruptly

—

Hill in Hazarib^gk t)istrict, Bengal wild, uninhabited tract to an

from a



a bare rock

elevation of 1759

above sea level. The hill is very difficult of ascent, and is crowned by a perpendicular rock 20 feet in height. There are several smaller peaked hills of the same character in the neighbourhood. feet

Bhandup.

— Sesaport

in Salsette,

4 miles south-west of Thana town

and Central India Railway. Lat. Bhandup had formerly a large rum

Thana

District,

Bombay

Presidency



Bombay, Baroda,

a station on the

19° 8' 45" n., long.

72° 59' 15"

e.

was closed in 1880. Bhdnga. Trading village in Fan'dpur District, Bengal situated on the Kumar river. Chief imports rice, paddy, salt, mustard, and distillery, which

—

piece-goods 23'

35"

N.,



principal exports

long. 90°

i'

20"

E.

—

jute,

— V.llage

molasses, and sugar.

Population (1881) 1461.

of non-residents attend the market on

Bhangarhat.



—

Mondays and

in the District of the

Lat.

23“

A large number

Fridays.

Twenty-four Parganas,