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— BHEEL AGENCY'— BHERA.

385

^

sum

of ;^i5o

is

yearly spent in the administration of the estate,

for the support of the

tions

Chief and his family, the balance of the

The

being devoted to the reduction of debt.

Bhedan

(pop.

and

realiza-

chief village,

1781), has an excellent school, with an average of 45

pupils.

Bheel ‘Agency.’— A collection of Native States — See Bhilwara. Shwe-gyin Bheeleng. — River and town — See Bilin.

District, British

in

—

Bheeleng-Kyaik-htO. Township Burma. See Bilin-kyaik-to.

— Island

Bheeloo-Gywon. Amherst

at

in Central India.

in

the

Shwe-gyin

mouth

of

Burma. British

District,

the

Salwin

river,

Burma. See Bilu-Gywon. the Nausharo Sub-division, Haidarabdd (Hyder-

District, British

Bhelani.

—Town

in

Bombay Presidency. Population (1881) Muhammadans, chiefly Sahitas and 750 Hindus,

abad) District, Sind,

namely, 700



Distant 18 miles north-east ofTharushah.

pally Lohanos.

P'ounded town of Halani. Amherst District, Arakan Division, British

It adjoins the

prior to the i6th century.

—

Bhenglaing. River Burma. See Binlaing. Bhensdehi.

1450, princi-

—

in

Village

in

Betul

tahsil,

Betul

District,

Central

Population (1881) 2653, namely, Hindus, 2373; Muhammadans, 192 Jains, 80; aboriginal tribes, 8. Bhera. Tahsil in Shdhpur District, Punjab; lying between 31° 54' Provinces.



50"

and 32°

35' 45" N.

and between 72°

lat.,

45’ 45"

and 73°

25' 15" e.

1181 square miles; population (1881) 167,260, namely, males 89,809, and females 77,451 ; persons per square mile, 142. Area,

long.

Hindus numbered 24,752; Muhammadans, 114,282; Sikhs, 1215; Revenue of the tahsil, ;£i 4, 2^1. The administraothers,’ 27,01 1. tive staff consists of i tahsilddr and i munsif who preside over i civil and 2 criminal courts. Number of police stations (thdnds), 9; strength Near of regular police, 138 men village watchmen {chaukiddrs), 173. the village of Vijjhi, in Bhera tahsil, is found one of the most conspicuous of the mounds abounding everywhere throughout Shahpur District, which tell of a bygone age of great prosperity, and attest the truth of the Greek accounts of hundreds of large cities in the upper Punjab, and a country teeming with population. Bhera. Town and municipality in Shdhpur District, Punjab, and Lat. 32° 29' n., long. 72° 57' e. head-quarters of Shdhpur tahsil.

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—

(1881) 15,165, namely, 9153 Muhammadans, 5746 Hindus, 260 Sikhs, and 6 Jains. A third-class municipality, with an income in 1880-81 of ^1151; expenditure, ;,£'i 258. It lies on the

Population

left

bank of the

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II.

Jhelum (Jehlam), and is the largest and most town in the District. The original city lay on

river

thriving commercial

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