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of local disorder, the estate was

administered by the Collector of

Cuddapah from 1825 to 1848. In the latter year it was restored, the Governor of Madras renewing the previous grants, and conferring larger civil and criminal powers upon the chief, who now holds the title of Xawab, bestowed upon him in 1876, on the occasion of the visit of the Prince of Al'ales to the Madras Presidency. The rule of primogeniture is

and

followed,

succeeds.

of male issue the nearest relation

the absence

in

Transit duties are not levied in the State.

Banaganapalli. (Kurnool)

— Chief

town

Madras

District,

in the

Madras, and 90 from Bellary. population

Xawab’s

2822.

(1881)

Banaganapalli estate, Karmil

Presidency; 15°

Lat.

250

situated 15'

n.,

from

miles 78°

long.

As the head-quarters of the

20'

estate,

e.



the

and treasury are situated here. The town lies mouth of a gorge, a stream from the hills flowing streets. About half a mile distant are the diamond mines, They a deposit of breccia underlying compact limestone.

courts,

jail,

in a plain near the

through

its

situated in

would seem

to

be nearly worked out,

for

though

in the i8th century

they yielded large returns, the best stones found between 1800-1850 at and even these were only exceptional. Since diamond washers have fallen off greatly in number, and those

were valued 1850, the

who continue at the mines procure only a Banas Hope of the Forest ’). A river

—

Aravalli range

(lat.

25°

7' x., long.

bare subsistence. of Rajputana.

Rises in the

73° 35' e.) in Udaipur (Oodeypore),

about 3 miles from the old fortress of Kumalgarh flows south until it meets the Gogunda plateau, when it turns eastward, and cutting through

the outlying ridges of the Aravalli Hills, bursts into the open country.

Here on farther

banks

its

on

it

is

flows

situated the Vaishnava shrine of Irathdevara;

north-east,

across

Mewar

(the

middle country)

Udaipur (Oodeypore) valley and the waters flowing from the south-east slopes and

proper, collecting

hill tracts

the greater part of the drainage of the

of the Aravallis.

It joins

the

Chambal

(lat.

25° 54' x., long.

beyond the north-east extremity of Bundi (Boondee) Chief affluents in Mewar State, after a course of about 300 miles. the Berach and the Kothesri from the Aravallis, and the Dhund from the Jaipur (Jeypore) country. Where the Banas strikes through a small picturesque group of hills at Rajmahal, there is some fine scenery, and but though the bed in the here its waters are very clear and pure upper part of its course is hard and rocky, it abounds in dangerous quicksands lower down. The Rajputana-ilalwa State Railway crosses it at Hami'rgarh in Mewar. Banas. River of Shahabad District, Bengal. At first it is merely as it a spill channel from the Son, which it leaves near Belta village proceeds northwards, it becomes the drainage channel between the Arrah Canal and the Bihiya branch of the Son Canal system. After 76° 50' E.) a

little



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