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BANDAR ULANKA^BANDRA. village

a Buddhist

is

57

which the people resort in large in May. Government middlePolice school, with boarding department.

temple, to

numbers at the time of class Anglo - vernacular

their festival

station.

Bandarulanka.— Village 467 houses.

Bandel. mile above

Contains a

—

Godavari

in

82° 2

District,

Madras Presidency.

Population (1881) 2673, inhabiting Situated on the Kausika branch of the Godavari river. Small village on the bank of the river Hugh', about a

Lat. i6° 35' N., long.

e.

Hugh town, in Bengal. Lat. 22° 55' Roman Catholic monastery, said to be

n., long.

88° 26' e.

the oldest Christian

A

in Bengal. stone over the gatew'ay bears the date 1599, but the original church founded in that year was burnt during the siege of

church

Hugh by

the Mughals in 1632, the images

present building was erected shortly

of the



the intercession of one of the priests,

made

and pictures which it conEmperor of Delhi. The afterwards and the Emperor, on who was taken prisoner to Agra,

command

tained being destroyed by the

a grant of 777 Inghds (about 250 acres) of land rent-free to the In its early days, the Portuguese built a fort opposite it

monastery.

defence

for its



and towards the close of

last

century there were, in

addition to the monastery, a nunnery, a boarding school, and a college

The mixed descendants of the Portuguese and natives sank into a low depth of degradation on the decline of the Portuguese power, and Bandel became proverbial for the immorality of its women. The inhabitants are now pure Bengalis, with the exception of a few of Jesuits.

which during more than a hundred years attached away with the disappearance of the last half-breed remnants of Portuguese rule. At present (1883), the establishment consists of a very small Portuguese mission. At the festival of the Novena, celebrated in November, a large number of Roman Catholics resort to the place. The name Bandel is a corruption of bandar, a priests



and the

taint

to Bandel, passed

’

‘

wharf or

port.

—

Bandipallam

Hill and stream in South Arcot ( Vanndrapaldyam ). Madras Presidency. Lat. 11° 43' 15" n., long. 79° 48' e. A strategical point of importance in the Anglo-French campaigns of 1750 District,

to 1780.

Bandra division of

—

Wdndren Bandora, Vdndra ). Town in the Salsette Sub( Thana District, Bombay Presidency; situated at the southern

extremity of Salsette, with the island of

at

the

point where that

island

is

connected

Bombay by

a causeway and arched stone bridge Lat. 19° 3' 5" N., long. 72° 52' 30" e.

9 miles north of Bombay. population (1881) 14,987 municipal revenue, ^^1536, or nearly 2s. per head; municipal expenditure, 1459 ; average annual value of trade

at the port of

The town

Bandra

for 5 years

— exports

^2138, imports ^^7505.

has a post-office and a dispensary, and

is

a station on the