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BHONGA ON— BHOPAL.

403

Area, 463 square miles, of which 264 are cultivated population (1881) revenue, 204,353 > ^^29,729 ; total Government revenue,

,^^32,256.

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Bhongdon. Town in Mainpurf District, North-Western Provinces, and head-quarters of Mainpuri tahsU. Lat. 27° 15' 30" N., long. 79° 12' 45" E. Distant 9^ miles east from Mainpuri, at the junction of the Agra and Grand Trunk roads. Population (1881) 6778, namely, Hindus, 4534; Muhammadans, 2036; and Jains, 208. 'rhe place

is

merely a collection of straggling hamlets, with

The houses

tensions to rank as a town.

little

generally are built of

pre-

mud,

and the few brick ones are so scattered as to be hardly noticeable. A small municipal income in the shape of a house tax for police and conservancy purposes is raised under the provisions of Act xx. of 1856.

Two

bazars, sardi (native inn), tahsili, police station, good-sized jhil or

lake,

modern mosque and temple.

poor

travellers,

who

The

latter contains

lodgings free to

from the owner. by Raja Bhim Sen, who

also receive a daily dole of grain

The town was founded, according

to tradition,

was cured of leprosy by bathing in the jhil. Bhongaon possessed some importance under the Mughal Emperors, and has a ruined fort on an artificial mound ; but its trade has now shifted to towns upon the railway. Bhoommawadee. Township in Taung-ngu District, British Burma.

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—See Bumawadi. Bhoon-maw. Pagoda

—

maw. Bhopdl.

in

Tenasserim, British Burma.

See

Bun-

— Native State

in Malwa, in the Bhopdl Political Agency of under the political superintendence of the GovernorGeneral’s Agent for Central India; lying between 22° 32' and 23° 46' N. lat., and between 76° 25' and 78° 50' e. long.; area, 6873

Central

India,

population miles; estimated revenue, _^,C4oo,ooo (1881) 954,901, namely, 498,643 males and 456,258 females, or 139 persons Number of large towns, 4 villages, 3006 to the square mile.

square





houses, 184,808;

population

number of persons per occupied house,

by caste

distributed

as

follows

5'i6.

The

Hindus,

747,004 Muhammadans, 82,164; Jains, 6022; Christians, 155; Sikhs, 136; Bounded on the north and west Parsi's, 2; aboriginal tribes, 119,418. by Sindhia’s territory and several petty States of the Central India Agency east by the British District of Sdgar (Saugor) ; and south by is





The the Narbadd (Nerbudda), and by Holkar’s territory of Aimawar. ruler is a female and an Afghan of the Mirdzai Khel tribe ; she succeeded her mother

in 1868,

and her daughter Sultan Jahan Begam

is

(1884) the recognised heir to the State. The Bhopdl dynasty was founded by Dost in the

service of Aurangzeb,

Muhammad, an Afghan who took advantage of the revolutions

which followed the death of the Emperor

to establish his

independent