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 BHUTANA—BHU VANES

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Notwithstanding repeated Bhutias on British subjects in the Dwars. remonstances and threats, scarcely a year passed without the occurrence of several raids in British territory headed by Bhutia officials, in which they plundered the inhabitants, massacred them, or carried them away as slaves.

In 1863, the Hon. Ashley to

demand

mission



Eden was

sent as an envoy to Bhutan,

He

reparation for these outrages.

he was subjected to the grossest

did not succeed in his

insults

j

and under com-

pulsion signed a treaty giving over the disputed territory to Bhutan,

and making other concessions extorted by the Bhutan Government. On Mr. Eden’s return, the Viceroy at once disavowed his treaty, stopped the former allowance for the Assam Dwars, and demanded the immediate restoration of all British subjects kidnapped during the last five years. The Bhutias not complying with this demand, the Governor-General issued a proclamation, dated the 1864, by which the eleven Western or Bengal

incorporated with the Queen’s Indian dominions. at

first

12th

November

Dwars were forthwith

No

resistance

was

offered to the annexation; but, suddenly, in January 1865, the

Bhutias surprised the English garrison at Diwangiri, and the post was loss of two mountain guns. The disaster was soon retrieved by General Tombs, and the Bhutias were compelled to sue for peace, which was concluded on the nth November 1865. The Bhutan Government, in the year following, formally ceded all the eighteen Dwars of Bengal and Assam, with the rest of the territory taken from them, and agreed to liberate all kidnapped British subjects. As the revenues of Bhutdn mainly depended on these Dwars, the British

abandoned with the

Government, in return for these concessions, undertook to pay the Deb and Dharm Rajas annually, subject to the condition of continued good behaviour, an allowance beginning at;^25oo and rising gradually Since that time nothing of to a maximum of twice that amount. importance has occurred, and the annexed territories have settled down into peaceful and prosperous British Districts. A few Bhutias inhabit the Eastern Dwars portion of Goalpara District in Assam, who resemble in every respect their countrymen of the Bhutan Hills.

—

Bhutana. Petty See B HATH AN.

Bhuvaneswar.

State in Jhalawar, Kathiawar,

—The

temple

for six centuries the

in 657.

The founder

of the line, Yayati

of the great fane about 500 a.d.

succeeding monarchs laboured it

sacred place of pilgrimage,

two and the fourth of the house The last public act of the dynasty was the vestibule between 1099 and 1104, or little more

Kesan', began the building

building of the beautiful VOL. II.

A

capital of the Siva-worshipping kings of the

Kesari or Lion dynasty of Orissa.

completed

Presidency.

city of Siva in Puri District, Bengal.

Lat. 20° 14' 45" N., long. 85° 52' 26" E.

and

Bombay

at

it,

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