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 BHA TGA ON—BHA TKAL.

Hindus and 2034 Muhammadans; area of town

5723, namely, 2775

5060

site,

acres.

Bhdtgaon.

—Town

Native State of Nepal, and formerly the Brahmans of the country; the inhabitants

in the

favourite residence of the

now

377

Hinduized Newars. The population is estimated at Approximate lat. 27° 37' n., long. 85° 22' E. It is well kept, and has some fine old buildings. The old Mall dynasty of Bhatgaon, like those of Patan and Khatmandu, in the same valley, succumbed before the Gurkha invaders in a.d. 1768-69. The town is garrisoned by four regiments of infantry, numbering about 2000 fighting men. It is connected with Khatmandu, the capital of Nepal, by a bridged carriage road about 8 miles in length. There are no fortifications. Cooking utensils and other vessels of brass, copper, and bell metal are made here for home use and exportation to Tibet. are

chiefly

30,000.

Bhathan. Presidency



— Petty

State in Jhalawar District, Kathidwar,

consisting of

i

and

village,

2

Bombay

independent tribute-payers.

Estimated revenue ;^3i6, of w'hich ^^64 is paid as tribute to the British Government, and ^6 to the Nawab of Junagarh. Lat. 22° 41' 71° 54'

N., long.

Bhatl

.

E.

— The

coast-strip

30' to 22°

name given by the Muhammadan historians to the Lat. 20° of the Sundarbans from Hijili to the Meghna. 30' N., long. 88° to 91° 14' E. The name means ‘lowlands

overflowed by the

tide,’

Khulna and Bakarganj

Bhatkal

(Sanskrit

and

applied to the Sundarban tracts of

is still

Districts, Bengal.

name Manipura

).

—Town

in the

Honawar Sub-divi-

North Kdnara District, Bombay Presidency. Lat. 13° 59' n., long. Within a mile and a half of the mouth of a small stream 74° 34' 40" E. that falls into the Arabian Sea, about 64 miles south-east of Karwar. Population (1881) 5618, namely, 3064 Muhammadans, 2515 Hindus, There are 25 Jains, and 14 Christians; area of town site, 556 acres. 2 small and 2 large mosques and the Musalman population has the special name Nawdyat, said to mean newly arrived,’ owing to their being Sunni Persians, driven from the Persian Gulf by the persecution of their Shia brethren, in the eighth century. Many of these Nawayats are wealthy traders, and visit different parts of the country for business purposes, leaving their families at Bhatkal. There is a post-office. From the 14th to the i6th century, under the names of Batticala (Jordanus, 1321), Battecala (Barbosa, 1510), and Baticala (De Barros), Bhatkal was a flourishing centre of trade, where merchants from Ormuz and Goa came to load sugar and rice. In 1505, the Portuguese estabsion,



‘

Goa made

lished a factory at Batticala, but a few years later the capture of

(15

1

1)

by the

deprived the place of British to establish

its

importance.

an agency

at

Two

Bhatkal

attempts were

— the

first in

1638 by a

country association, the second in 1668 by the regular company, but