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BHARTPUR. a railway station

371

on the East Indian Railway. The place was selected on account of its central position,

as the head-quarters of the tahsil

but

is

The Government

otherwise unimportant.

offices,

together with

the police station, distillery, post-office, sardi, and market,

north of the railway line close to the station, the village

A

a quarter of a mile to the north.

produce

is

Agent

on the being

sale of country

held on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Bhartpur {Bharatpur ).

— Native

superintendence of

political

market for the

lie

itself

a

State

Political

in

Rajputana, under the

Agent,

subordinate to the

to the Governor-General of India for the States of

Rajputana and 27° 49' n. lat., and between 76° 54' and 77° 48' E. long. It is bounded on the north by the British District of Gurgaon on the east by the Districts of Muttra and Agra on the south-east, south, and south-west by the native States of Dholpur, Karauli (Kerowlee), and Jaipur (Jeypore) ; and on the west by Alwar (Ulwur). It is about 77 miles in length from north to south, and lying between 26° 42'





63 miles in breadth;

area,

1974 square miles.

Population (1881)

645 54 °>

The

general appearance of the State

is flat

and rather low, especially

towards the north, the average height of the surface being about 600

and about 50

above the water surface of the is interrupted by detached hills in the north and south, and by low ranges on some parts of the western and south-eastern frontier, but the general aspect feet

above the

Jumna.

is

an

sea,

The uniform

alluvial plain, fairly

feet

character

of the country

wooded.

In the

rains,

owing to the low

level,

amount of surface is flooded. The soil of a great part hard and dry, and in places much deteriorated by sand. The State

a considerable is

suffers its

from want of water, but

is

made

productive by the industry of

inhabitants.

The geological formation of Bhartpur is alm.ost entirely of the sedimentary class, and the exposed rocks may be divided into three classes— the alluvial the series called Vindhyan, which occur in the range running from Fatehpur Sikri towards Hindaun ; and the quartzite. About 13 miles west of Biana, near the town of Nilhara, are two small

hills

of a peculiar breccia, probable representatives of the

Khaimur

conglomerate.

The principal hills of the State are a low range forming the boundary between pargands Pahari and Gopalgarh, of Bhartpur and Firozpur and Alwar, running north and south, the highest point of which (Chapra) is 1222 feet. The Kalapahar, close to the Alwar frontier, contains The the highest summit in Bhartpur, Mount Alipur, 1351 feet. Sidgirpahar range runs on the south-eastern frontier in a direction north-east to south-west for a length of about 30 miles, the highest point, Usera, being 817 feet;

in

it

are situated the celebrated Bansi-