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 BHA USINGH—BHA VANI.

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Lat. 21° 45 n., long. 72° 12' 30" e. population (1881) namely, Hindus, Muhammadans, 34,978 47,792, 8434 3714 Jains, 248 Christians, 95 Parsis, and 323 ‘others.’ The town was founded in 1742 by Bhau Singh, and rapidly rose to influence under a line of

Presidency.

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who encouraged commerce and suppressed

princes

munities that infested the Gulf of Cambay.

It

the piratical com-

has a good and safe

harbour for shipping of light draught, and carries on an extensive trade, the principal market and harbour of export for cotton in

being

Kathiawar.

It

and weaving

possesses a spinning

approached by a cotton to Bombay in 1874-75 was valued

and post-office. Bhausingh. trade

—

— Market

Bengal.

District.

salt,

Lat.

jute,

mill,

working 12,064

The harbour winding creek. The

several steam presses.

spindles in 1875, of access, being

and

village

at .;^i,3i3,799.

on the Bhagirathf

river,

is difficult

export

of

Dispensary in

Bardwan

23° 36' 24" N., long. 88° 13' 30" E.

Chief

cloth.

Comprised within the municipality of

— River

rising in the

Dainhdt.

Bhavani {Bhawdni ).

Kunda group

of the Nflgiri

Madras Presidency. It enters the low country in lat. 11° 9' n., and after a winding course eastward, 105 miles in long. 76° 37' E. length, during which it receives several affluents, the Moyar being the The chief chief, it joins the Kaveri (Cauvery) at the town of Bhavani. places on its banks are Mettapolliem (Mettupalayam), where it is crossed by a good masonry bridge, Attani, Denaikankotia, Satyamangalam, and Fish abound in the Bhavim', where it joins the Kaveri (Cauvery). Hills,



is considered unwholewhich three are important, viz. Arkankottai and Tadapalli, from the Kodivalli anicut near SatyamanThe gross galam, and the Kalingarayan, from the anicut near Bhavani. revenue from the irrigated lands is _^,C24,7oo. Taluk in Coimbatore District, Madras Presidency. Bhavani. Houses, Area, 722 square miles, containing i town and 61 villages. population (i88i) 94,123, being males 46,230, and females 19,651 The taluk is bounded on the north and east by the Kaveri 47,893. river; on the south by the Erode taluk, and on the west by the Satyamangalam and Collegal taluks. The north and west are hilly and covered with forest, the Burghur (Bargur) hills marking the western boundary. Wild tribes, of whom little is known, are found on the hills.

stream, especially near Mettapolliem

the water

,

It feeds four irrigation works, of

some.

—



The

taluk, especially near the forests,

is

unhealthy.

Irrigation

is

carried

on to a small extent, chiefly by the Appagiidal series of tanks, irrigating Area about 536 1428 acres, of which 1292 are assessed at ^814. Land revenue, are occupied. acres which square miles, of 135,327 of the soil is per cent, Above 66. of villages, Number 80 ^11,858. red sand, and the average dry assessment per acre is is. lod. The