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 BHOPAL AGENCY—BHOR GHAT.

4o6

spreads a fine

mile broad; 4^ miles long and town another 2 miles in length. From these lakes, by the liberality of the Kudsia Begam, the town is now plentifully supplied Avith water the waterworks are in charge of an English engineer, and the water is to be supplied to the people, free, for ever. The Political Agent lives at Sehore, the head-quarters of the Bhopal contingent, 20 miles distant from Bhopdl. Distant from Allahabad 325 miles south-west; from Calcutta, via Sambalpur and Nagpur, 790 miles.

fort

and on the

artificial lake,

east of the



—

Bhopal Agency. A collection of Native States, under the political superintendence of the Governor-General’s Agent for Central India. Bounded south and east by the Central Provinces, and north and west by various Native

and Rajputana.

States of Central India

Area, about

87 19 square miles ; estimated population (1881)1,291,358. The nine States comprising the Agency are Bhopal, Rajgarh, Narsinhgarh,

Kurwai, Maksudangarh, Khilchipur, Basoda, Muhammadgarh, and Pathari, all of which see separately. In addition to the above, the Political Agent Avhose head-quarters are at Bhopal has also charge of isolated patches of territory belonging to the States of Gwalior,

The

Indore, Tonk, and Dewas.

following guaranteed Thakurates are

also included in this Agency, viz. Agra-Barkhera, Dagria, Daria-Kheri,

Dhabla-Dhir, Dhabla-Ghosi, Duleta, Hi'rapur, Jabria, Jhalera, Kamalpur, Kdkar-Kheri, Khajuri, Kharsia, Piplia-nagar, Ramgarh, Sutalia, and

Tappa.

—

Bhor. Native State within the Political Agency of Satara, in the Deccan, Bombay Presidency. Estimated area, 1491 square miles; population (1881) 145,872; number of villages, 486; gross revenue, inclusive of import and export duties, about ^^46,450. Except in one tract,

where the land

fourths of the soil

products

— rice

is

and

is level,

the country

7idgli

caste,

covered with

is

The

hills.

blue and grey

Bhor

(Eleusine corocana).

feudatories of the old Satara raj.

Brahmans by

is

red, the remainder

is



Threeprincipal

one of the

family of the chief are Hindus,

and they hold a sanad authorizing adoption



the

family follows the rule of primogeniture, and the succession has been

maintained by several adoptions. The Chief holds the title ofjdgirddr of Bhor and Pant Sachev, and he ranks in the first class of Deccan sarddrs.

535

He

maintains for other than military purposes a retinue of

follovA’ers.

A

tribute of

^^s.,

being the

commuted

elephant subsidy hitherto annually paid to the Chief,

is

value of

paid to the

Government. There are 25 schools, with 723 pupils. Chief town of the Bhor State in the Deccan, Bombay Bhor.

British

—

Presidency; 25 miles south of Poona (Puna). 73° 53' 25"

Lat.

18° 9' n., long.

E.

Bhor Ghat.

— Pass across the

Western Ghats, 40 miles south-east of