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chief roads are the Satyamangalam

course of the Bhavani river,

road, which nearly follows the and two roads leading to Mysore by

and Nadukaval respectively. Products are ordinary grains, iron good and well-dyed cottons, carpets, gunny, and forest produce. There are few schools, and those of the primary class 4 large and 4 small markets where fees are collected, 28 ferries, and 6 police stations. Trade is unimportant, except in grain and forest There are 36 arrack and 37 toddy shops in the taluk. Near produce. Bargiir

in small quantity,



Nerinjipetta there

would be

across the Kaveri (Cauvery), at

a large anicut

is

present out of repair and useless profitable.

Bhavani {B/iavdm

Kudal).



it

is

— Town

doubtful whether in the

Bhavani

its

repair

taluk,

Coim-

batore District, Madras Presidency ; formerly feudatory to the Raja ol Madura. Lat. 11° 26' n., long. 77° 44' e. ; population (1881) 5930,

almost exclusively Hindus (5672), 20 per cent, being Brahmans ; houses, 1387. Situated at the junction of the Bhavani and Kaveri (Cauvery) Once the chief town rivers, 9 miles north of Erode railway station.

now only

a post town and head-quarters of the tahsil Both the Kaveri (Cauvery) and Bhavani are here crossed by fine masonry bridges, over which the high road from Madras to Coimbatore passes, and the town shares in the These are the main roads traffic on seven roads which converge here. the Hassaniir ghat, and to Salem, Coimbatore, and Satyamangalam In Bargur ghat roads, and the roads to Erode and Kondapadi.

of the District,

has also a sub-registrar.



November, many pilgrims assemble at the temple of Sangamma Iswara, {sangamma) of the rivers. The bridge over immediately afterthe Kaveri (Cauvery) was completed in 1847, wards destroyed by the freshets. It was rebuilt with 26 spans, at a Good cotton cost of ;,^49oo, and again opened for traffic in 1851. carpets and cloths are made here and dyed. Bhaw. River in Pegu District, Pegu Division, British Burma. See Bhaw. Bhawal (or Ndgari). Village in Dacca District, Bengal. Lat. 23° In 1839, and several neighbouring 59' 35" N., long. 90° 27' 50" E. villages were the property of a Roman Catholic Mission, and Bhawal contained in that year about 500 houses, almost entirely inhabited by built at the confluence

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Christians of Portuguese descent.

Bhawan.

—Town

in

Rai Bareli

tahsil,

8 miles south-east of Rai Bareli town.

Rai Bareli

District,

Oudh;

Lat. 26° 26' n., long. 81° 18' e.

same name about 500 years ago. On Bhar power, the town was made over to a Muhammadan chief, and a fort built, the remains of which now consist Masonry mosque. of unshapely mounds. Village in Salbarf pargand (fiscal division), Bhawanandpur.

Founded by a Bhar the

chief of the

overthrow of the

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