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BIDHUNA—BIHAR.

420

Government revenue,

per acre.

6|d.

2S.

The

tahsil contains

2

criminal courts, with 5 police stations {(hands) ; strength of regular police, 56 men; village watchmen {chaukiddrs), 293.

—

Bidhlina. Village in Etawah District, North-Western Provinces, and head-quarters of Bidhiina tahsil situated on the Etawah and Kanauj road, 32 miles distant from Etawah town, and i mile from the Rind uadi, which is here crossed by a bridge. The village is only important as the head-quarters of the tahsil, which were removed here after the Mutiny on account of the more central position of the present site. Bidhiina is connected with the Achalda station, on the East Indian Railway, by a raised and bridged road. North of the village are the ruins of an old fort. Market twice a week. Police station. Bidi (or Khdnapur). Sub-division of Belgaum District, Bombay

—

Presidency. tion

(1881)

Hindus number 69,547; Muhammadans, 4815 Sub-division stations

men

Popula-

Area, 632 square miles; contains 219 villages. 79,264, namely, 39,996 males and 39,268

contained

in

1883,

criminal

2

{(hands)-, strength of regular police,



females.

‘others,’ 4902.

with

courts,

The police

6

54 men; village watch-

{chaukiddrs), 382.

Bidyadhari.

— River

in the District of the

Lat. 22° 21' to 22° 27' N., long.

Bengal.

from the Sundarbans on the

name

east,

Twenty-four Parganas,

88° 43' to 88° 50'

Flows

e.

northwards past Harua, where

it

takes

Harua Gang after which it bends to the west, and is joined by the Nona Khal it then flows south-west to the junction of the Baliaghata and Tolly’s canals, and afterwards south-east to Canning town. Here the Karatoya and the Atharabanka join it, and the united the

of the





stream

south through

passes

the

Sundarbans as the Matla

river,

Bay of Bengal under that name. It forms part of both the two channels (known as the Outer and Inner Sundarbans Passages) by entering the

which the

traffic

of Calcutta with the eastern Districts

Principal river-side villages

— Malancha,

Basra,

is

carried on.

and Pratapnagar



trade

in firewood.

Bihar.

— Pargand

situated in beautiful

the

and

District, Oudh in Partabgarh (Pratapgarh) extreme south of the Province. One of the most

fertile

mahud

tracts

in

Oudh



celebrated

for

its

magnificent

numerous lakes and jhils which stud Area, 228 square miles, of which 108 are cultivated its surface. population (1881) 128,344, namely, Hindus, 114,036; and Muhammadans, 14,308. The proportion of high castes is above the average. Of the 237 villages which make up the pargand, 184 are held in tdlukddri tenure by four Bisen proprietors, known as the Bhadri, and the Kundrajit, Dahiawan and Shaikhpur Chauras tdlukddrs remaining 53 are held under mufrdd tenure by 480 individuals. Brahmans hold 4 villages; Bisens, 14; Kayasths, 8; Raikwars, only groves of

trees

and

for the