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 BIJNI—BIKANER. the royal family of

Kuch

437

Besides being the revenue-collector

Behar.

under Government of Bijni Dwar, he is also zammddr of the two pargands of Khuntaghat and Habraghat in the permanently settled The l^ortion of Godlpara District, with an area of 942^^ square miles. estate has recently been administered under the Court of Wards during the minority of the Raja. The average annual rental was found to be An accumu;^i2,i6o, while the Government revenue is only ;^235. lated surplus of ^79,047 was handed over to the you.ng Raja when he

came

of age.

— Largest

Dwar

of the same name, forming one Goalpara District, Assam ; on the north bank of the Dalani river, which is here crossed by a ferry. Lat. 26° 30' N., long. 90° 47' 40" E. There is a small bazar. See Bijnor. District, tahsil, and town, North-Western Provinces BrjNAUR. Chief village of an estate of that name in Udaipur Bijoli. (Oodeypore) Native State, Rajputana. Situated about 100 miles north-east of Udaipur, and the residence of a first-class noble of the Bijni.

village in the

Dwars attached

of the Eastern

to

— —

.

who owns 76 villages. Native Bikaner {Bickaneer

—

State,

—

).

superintendence of a

State in Rajputana, under the political

Agent and the Governor-General’s Agent for Rajputana, lying between 27° 12' and 30° 12' N. lat., and between 72° 15' and 75° 50' E. long. The area according to the Census return of 1881 is 22,340 square miles ; but this can only be an inference, a large portion

as

is

Political

unsurveyed. Number of villages, 1739, Popnlation (1881) 509,021, namely, Hindus,

still

including 6 chief towns.

436,190; Muhammadans, 50,874; Jains, 21,943; and Christians, 14. Bikaner is bounded on the north-west by Bahawalpur, a Muham-

madan

State on the north-east by the British Districts of Sirsa and Hissar in the Punjab; on the east by Jaipur (Jeypore); on The the south and south-west by Jodhpur and Jaisalmir (Jeysulmere). southern, and most of the north-eastern portions of the State, form part of the vast sandy tract known as the Bagar, comprising also Marwar and the north of Jaipnr. The north-west and part of the north lie within the Thar or Great Indian Desert; the north-east corner, ad;

joining Sirsa,

is

the least

unfertile section

favourable years flooded by the Sotra. State are at the borders of Jaipur

The

of the State, being in only rocky

not more than 500 feet above the level of the plain. of Bikaner, south-west

and stony is

hills in

the

and Jodhpur, and even these are

From

to the Jaisalmir border, the country

the city is

hard

but throughout the greater part of the territory the plain undulating or interspersed with shifting sandhills from 20 to over

100

feet

wind,



high,

suggest

whose the

slopes, lightly furrowed

ribbed

appearance of

from the action of the

the

sea-shore.

Generally