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BANDA— BAND ARBAN.

56

and 229 returned as

Five square miles are reserved under

cultivable.

the Forest Department.

Population (1881) 82,333, namely, males The adult 42,883, and females 39,450; number of villages, 273. agricultural population numbers 32,561, or 39‘5S per cent, of the population of the tahsil

total

average area of cultivated and cultivable

Total amount of Government

8 acres per adult agriculturist.

land,

land revenue, ^^4865 ; total revenue, including cesses, ;^52io, or an average of io|^d. per cultivated acre; rental paid by cultivators, in-

cluding cesses, ^^14,307, or an average of 2s. 2|d. per cultivated acre. In 1883, the tahsil contained i civil and i criminal court, with 2 police stations

and 8 outposts.

watchmen Bdnda.

Strength of regular police, 79

men;

of village

{chaakiddrs), 203.

—

Small town in Sagar (Saugor) District, Central Provinces, and unimportant, except as being the head-quarters of Banda tahsil, situated about 20 miles north-east of Sagar town, on the main road to Cawnpur. Population (1881) 1313; houses, 336. Police station and village school.

Bandajan.

— Pass

Muzafarabad Division of Kashmir

in

State,

Punjab,

over a range of the Himalayas, covered with an unbroken sheet of perpetual snow. Lat. (summit) 31° 22' n., long. 78° 4' e elevation above .

the sea, 14,854

Bandamurlanka. — Hamlet

patnam

82°

long.

Godavari

in 1'

E.

Narsdpur, on

One

A



feet.



District,

attached to the town of KumarigiriMadras Presidency. Lat. 16° 25' n.,

population (1881) 4380. Situated 18 miles east of Vainateyam, or western mouth of the Godavari.

the

of the three earliest English settlements in the delta of that

factory

established

here early in

afterwards abandoned.

Bandar -Vrea,

(Batidwar).

It is still

— Taluk

702 square miles.

population (1881)

a small seaport.

in

in

Land revenue, ;^3 1,000.

Kistna

river.

shortly

See B.and.^rulanka.

Houses, 30,779

175,482, thus classified according to sex

Town Bandar. Masulipatam. Bandarban.

century was

Kistna District, Madras Presidency.

88,279; females, 87,203; distributed Chief town, Masulipatam, or Bandar.

—

i8th

the

in

District,

2

towns and 188

Madras



— males, villages.

Presidency.

— See

— Principal village of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bengal,

and the residence of the Poang Raja (the Bohmong), situated on the Sangu river. Lat. 22° 12' 30" N., long. 92° 16' 30" E. piopulation about There is a permanent market here, at which considerable traffic 3000.

is

carried on.

hewn

The

hillmen bring

down

for sale timber (either

rough

bamboos, rattans, thatching-grass, sesamum, mustard, india-rubber, and occasionally small quantities, of ivory and wax. They buy rice, salt, spices, dried fish, tobacco, cattle, piece-goods, trinkets, etc. The most interesting building in the or

into

boats), cotton,