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 BHA WANI—BHEBAN.

384 Dinajpur

and fair

Bengal

District,

6 miles north of Ranisanhdil police station,



Scene of the celebrated Nekmard His saint, buried here.

mile west of the river Kulik.

I

Muhammadan

held in honour of a pir, or

tomb, in a mat hut in the middle of a mango grove, is visited during the six or seven days of the fair by about 150,000 persons from all parts of the country. The fair is opened on the first day of the Bengali year, corresponding to the loth or nth April. A great variety of articles are brought for

surrounding

Oxen come from Purniah and

sale.

Bhutan

ponies from the

the

from Kabul and the Behar Districts, elephants from the Darjiling tardi and Assam, and camels from the north-west. Mughals and Afghans bring dried fruits, embroidered saddlery, looking-glasses, etc. The hill tribes bring down blankets, woollen cloths, ponies, and yak tails. The Nepalis sell kukris (heavy bill-hooks, the national weapon of the Gurkhas) and chiretd leaf. Quantities of real and imitation coral beads are exposed for sale by the Marwari shopkeepers of Dinajpur. Besides Districts,

the above, there are English piece-goods, brass sizes,

hookahs, grain,

—

horses

Hills,

jDots

of

all

sorts

and

etc.

—

Bhawani. 7h/«//and town in Hissar District, Punjab. A^£;B hiwani. Bhawanipatna. Village in Kalahandf Feudatory State, attached

—

Sambalpur District of the Central Provinces. Population (1881) 3483, namely, Hindus 3366, and Muhammadans 117. Bhawanipur. Suburb of Calcutta, with a central lunatic asylum for

to

—

Europeans, several schools, a dispensary, 88°

23'

E.

firewood

is

The

native village

is

—Town

in

Halar

District,

Some

Kathiawar,

Eat. 21° 51' 15" N., long. 70° 17' 15"

5197, namely, 4428 Hindus, 669

Bhedan

21° 32' n., long.

trade in

carried on.

Bhayawadar. dency.

Eat.

etc.

on Tolly’s Canal.

(or

Basaikdd ).

E.



Bombay

Presi-

population (i88i)

Muhammadans, and 100 Jains. chiefship, now attached

—Ancient Cond

to

Sambalpur District, Central Provinces 24 miles south-south-west of Sambalpur town. Eat. 21° 12' N., long. 83° 47' 30" e. The population, residing in 30 villages, spread over an area of 60 square miles, consists The estate is of Brahmans, Eadras, Kultas, Conds, and Dhimals. Pulses and oil-seeds highly cultivated, the chief product being rice.

are also ing.

grown

to a small extent, while sugar-cane cultivation

The revenue

annual tribute

is

payable to Government of ^^104.

said to have been conferred family,

by Balram Deo, the

Years ago.

Manohar

spread-

The

chiefship

is

on Sisa Rai Cond, the founder of the

first

Chauhan

ruler of

Sambalpur, about 300

Singh, the chief in 1857, joined the rebels under

Surendra Sa, and being killed

in action,

was succeeded by

his

son

Owing to the embarrassed circumstances of the came under Government management. in 1878. The

Baijnath Singh, a minor. family, the estate

is

a year, and an

of the estate amounts to about