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 BANGA—BANGALI.

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Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway. Since the opening of become a favourite place of resort for the citizens of Bombay. Banga. Town and municipality in Nawashahr tahs'tl, Jalandhar (Jullundur) District, Punjab; 22 miles east of Jullundur (Jalandhar) railway communication, Bandra has

—

town.

and

31° ii' 15"

Lat.

made upas

N., long.

— Hindus,

76° 2

Population (1881) 4565,

E.

2767 Muhammadans, 763 Sikhs, 945 Occupied houses, 761. The town forms a local com-

follows

Jains, 90.

mercial centre,









a large trade in sugar, wheat, and country produce,

witl:

manufacture of cotton cloth, and of brass and copper vessels. A wellbuilt and paved town, with a dispensary. Government middle school,

and police station. Municipal income (1880-81) £226. Bangahal. Valley in Kangra District, Punjab, forming the between Kangra Proper and the outlying dependency of Kullu. post-office,

e.xpenditure,

—

link Lat.

32° 18' to 32° 29' N., long. 76° 49' to 76° 55'

mountain

The

Consists of two E. one another by the Dhaola Dhar range. known as Bara Bangahal, contains the head-waters

glens, divided from

northern

half,

of the Ravi, which issues already a considerable river into the Native State of

but

The

Chamba.

area of Bara Bangahal

is

290 square miles



contains only one village, situated at the lowest point of the

it

valley,

some 8500

Some

feet

above the

sea,

and inhabited by a few Kanet

number of houses in the village were swept away by an avalanche. The mountains slope steeply up from families.

years ago, a

the banks of the river, and rise into peaks of from 17,000 to over 20,000 feet,

covered with glaciers and perpetual snow.

the ravines there

is

Near the bottom of

a good deal of pine forest, and higher up, long bare

on the melting of the snows, afford splendid grazing for and goats. The southern half, known as Chhota again divided into two parts by a branch range 10,000

slopes, which,

large flocks of sheep

Bangahal,

is

feet in height



its

eastern fork contains the head-waters of the

U1

by Kanets and Daghis. The western glen, known as the Bfr Bangahal, does not differ in any material respect from the general aspect of the Kangra river,

and some eighteen small scattered

villages, inhabited

District.

—

Bangali. River of North Bengal rises in Rangpur, flows thence through a marshy tract which it drains by means of deep khdls, or water-channels,



into

Bogra

In

District.

receiving the waters of the Manas,

it

falls

the into

latter

District,

after

the Halhalia river,

which ultimately joins the Phuljhur. The great marshes which cover the entire tract through which the river runs, empty themselves into it

by means of deep

k/idls or

drainage channels.

is

e.xtended

all

In

this

way, in the

becomes the main artery by which boat traffic over the east of Bogra District and on its banks, or on

rainy season, the Bangali