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Bellary Bijayanagar. — Ruined Madras Presidency. — See Hampi. Kashmir Bijbahar. — Town Punjab. — Bijbharu. 30" Champaran Bijbani. — Town Bengal. LaL 26° 85° Market twice a week. Kashmir Punjab, Bijbharu. — Town on the banks of city in

in

District,

State,

in

See

District,

51'

N.,

10' E.

long.

in

lying

State,

Jhelum (Jehlam) river, about 25 miles south-east of Srinagar, in lat. The second city in importance and 33° 47' N., and long. 75° 13' e. population in the Kashmir valley, containing a temple to Siva under his title of Bajeswar. Thornton notices its singular wooden bridge and large bazar, but states that the town contains nothing else worthy of the

special record.

— Bijepur. — Town

Bijegarh. Town See Bijaigarh.

in Aligarh

in

District,

North-Western Provinces.

Udaipur (Oodeypore) Native

State,

Situated in one of the largest valleys in the range of

of Chitor.

There

is

—

Rajputana.

hills to

the east

a large sheet of water to the north of the town,

formed by a massive stone dam. The town is the residence of a secondclass noble of the State, who owns 81 villages.

Bijeraghogarh.—Tract of country in Jabalpur (Jubbulpore) District, Central Provinces, lying between 23° 43' 45" and 24° 8' n. lat., and between 80° 23' 30" and 81° e. long. Bounded north by Maihar State, east

by Rewah, and west by the Murwara tahsil and Panna.

Population

Formerly a protected (1881) 86,276; area, about 750 square miles. chiefship belonging to a branch of the family which owns Maihar, but confiscated on account of excesses committed by the chief in 1857. Chiefly agricultural, but there

served as a Government

is

forest.

some Iron

is

fine timber in the portion pre-

found in several places, and

is

smelted after the rough native method.

Bijeraghogarh.

—Village

District, Central Provinces.

in

Murwara

tahsil,

Jabalpur (Jubbulpore)

Population (1881) 2645, namely, Hindus,

2129; Kabirpanthis, 214; Muhammadans, 301; aboriginal, i. The town contains a handsome but comparatively recent fort, formerly the residence of the chiefs, but now used as revenue and police offices. The grounds attached to the fort are kept up as a public garden. One of the seven Khand viiittds of Vizagapatam District, Bijipur. Madras Presidency. Formerly proscribed by the Meriah Agency as addicted to human sacrifice. It consists of 9 villages, and forms part of the Gunapur taluk, being separated from Ponkala, the next stage, by a dense sal jungle 9 miles in extent. Bijji. Zaminddri, or large estate in Bastar State, Central Provinces situated between 17“ 46' and 18° 23' 15" n. lat, and between 80° 58' and 81° 34' E. long. Contains 85 small villages; area, about 850 square miles; population (1881) 10,529, namely, 5514 males and 5015

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