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autumn rains, and sparsely and hamlets being widely scattered and built upon

regularly inundated by the river during the

inhabited, the villages

slightly elevated sites. The upland tract is by far the richest part of the pargand, and contains many large and populous villages, some with large

masonry

buildings,

embowered

and

in groves

dense and apparently prosperous population. luxuriant crops

j

and with a producing

facilities for irrigation.

R^jputana — See Bhartpur. — Bombay Presidency. —Sub-division of Khandesh

Bhurtpore.

Bhusawal.

easy

fruit-trees,

Soil excellent,

State in

.

District,

Area, 571 square miles; contains 3 towns and 185 villages. tion (1881) 96,160, namely, 49,707 males and 46,453

Hindus number 85,656; Muhammadans, 7183 north-west and along the Tapti the country



Populafemales.

Tothe

‘others,’ 3321.

and monotonous. The south-east of the Sub-division, which stretches into Berar, though flat, is here and there broken by babiil groves, especially along the banks of the Puma. The rest is more or less undulating, with straggling hillocks covered with loose stones and boulders. Along the north-east boundary runs a bold range of hills. The Sub-division is scantily wooded, and without the mango groves so abundant in other parts of the District. The tract between the Puma river and the hills from the Suki river to the eastern frontier is ruined by its deadly climate, and repeated attempts to re-colonise deserted villages have failed. Elsewhere, the Sub-division is fairly healthy. There is plenty Besides

of surface water.

Sur

and

Puma

the

tributaries,

Bhagavati,

Of

Sub-division.

the

flat

is

Tapti river in

the

and Wdghar,

there

north,

and the minor are over 2000 irrigation

the two kinds of black

soil,

with

its

streams, wells

in

the the

the rich alluvial clay

found north of Edlabad cannot be surpassed. In the east of Kurha, where it gives place to a rich black loam, it yields the finest crops. The other soils are mostly mixed red and brown. In the north-east is poor, and the waste lands are generally dry and rocky. Along the river-banks are small alluvial plots called dehli. Of 566 miles, the total area surveyed in detail, 10 miles are occupied by the

the soil

The remainder, according to the revenue survey returns, comprises 288,808 acres, or 81 'ii per cent, of cultivable

lands of alienated villages. land, of 5 1

which 171,810 acres were under cultivation; 54,567

'32 per cent, of uncultivable

of village

sites,

roads, rivers,

land



and 12,709

and streams.

acres, or

acres, or 3'57 percent,

Total land revenue of the

In 1883, Bhusawal contained 1877-78, ^^24,350. I civil and 3 revenue courts, with 2 police stations (ihdnds ) ; strength of regular police, 118 men ; village watchmen (chaiikiddrs), 395. Sub-division

in

—

Bhusawal. Chief town of the Sub-division Khandesh District, Bombay Presidency; 64 Eat. 21°

i'

30"

N., long. 75° 47' E.



of the

same name

in

miles east of Dhulia.

population (1881) 9613, of

whom