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 BIKRAMPUR—BILASPUR.

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Population (1881) 2397, inhabiting 512 houses. Lat. 16° 58' n., long. 6' E. situated on the northern edge of the delta, on a main canal

82°

16 miles west of Coconada.

Bikrampur.

— Village

—See Birudanka-rayapuram.

Dacca District, Bengal; celebrated as being Hindu kings of Northern Bengal, from of Vikramaditya to the overthrow of the dynasty by the in

the seat of government under the

the reign

Musalmans.

mound

Lat.

23° 33' n., long. 90° 33' 30"

of earth, covering an area of

3000 square

A

e.

quadrangular

and surrounded of Raja Ballal Sen’s

feet,

by a moat 200 feet wide, is pointed out as the site j)alace, and the foundations and remains of buildings are found for many miles round. Near the site of the palace is a deep excavation, called Agnikunda, where, according to legend, the last native prince of Bikrampur and his family burned themselves on the approach of the Musalmans. The village ranks only second to Nadiya town as regards Sanskrit learning, and contains several tols (see Nadiya District), where logic, rhetoric, grammar, and astronomy are taught. The pargand to which the village gives its name, and which extends over the two police divisions of Munshiganj and Srinagar, supplies nearly one-third of the subordinate native officials in the Government offices of Bengal. Bildigarh.

— Chiefship or zaminddn

in Bilaspur District, Central Pro-

Area, 109 square miles, or 69,760 acres, of which only 10,977 acres are cultivated, and about 20,000 acres more are cultivable ; number vinces.

villages, 54; occupied houses, 2476; population (1881) 10,848, namely, males 5419, and females 5429; average density of population,

of

The ruins of a large fort and of some ancient 99‘52 per square mile. temples show that the hamlet of the same name (lat. 21° 38' 15" n., long. 82° 46' E.), where the Chief resides, was once a place of some The Chief is

importance. Bilari.

—

Gond

of

Moradabad

Tahs'il of

descent. District,

North-Western Provinces.

Area, 333 square miles, of which 257 are cultivated ; population (1881) total 229,784; number of villages, 394; land revenue, of ^C66,88o incidence cultivators, revenue, ^^35,549; rental paid by

Government revenue, 2

2s. 9d.

criminal courts, with

jDolice,

2

per acre.

The

ia/isil

police stations (thdrids )

including municipal police, 64

men ;

contains



village

i

civil

and

strength of regular

watchmen

(chauki-

ddrs), 472.

—Town

Moradabad

North-Western Provinces, 16 miles south-east of and head-quarters Moradabad town. Population (1881) 4861, namely, 2486 Hindus, and 2375 Musalmans town area, 65 acres. A small revenue is raised under Bilari.

in

of Bilari

District,

tahsil,

situated



the provisions of Act xx. of 1865, for police and conservancy purposes, amounting to ;^i20 in 1881—82. Railway and telegraph station on

the

Oudh and Rohilkhand

Bilaspur.

— District

Railway.

in the

Chief Commissionership of the Central