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 BANGANAFALLI—BANGA ON.

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and miners, and

2 regiments of Madras Native Infantry. In former days the strength of the garrison at Bangalore was much greater. The Bangalore Rifle Volunteers (a force first enrolled in 1868) consists of 4 companies, numbering 356 officers and men, and a cadet company

59 strong. Medical Aspects ness, being well

.

— The climate

of Bangalore

noted for

is

its

healthi-

of Europeans and

suited to the constitutions both

The mean annual temperature is 76'2° F. the average annual The registration returns for 1880 show a death36 inches.

natives.



rainfall is

i 6’93 per 1000, and a birth-rate of i8'8o; in the cantonments the death-rate was 1472 per 1000, and the birth-rate, 2 2'r9. There was a severe outbreak of cholera in the cantonments in death-rate in that year was 20 '5 4 per rooo. 1875 ; Banganapalli. Estate in Karnul (Kurnool) District, Madras. See Banaganapalli.

rate in the pet of

—

—

Bangangd

(

Utangan).

—A

Rajputdna

river of



rises

in

the

hills

near Manoharpur, about 25 miles due north of Jaipur (Jeypore), and flows south-east for about 25 miles, until it reaches a range of hills near Ramgarh. After forcing its way through these hills in a deep mile in length, from 350 to 500 feet wide and 400 feet its course due east for about 65 miles, when it enters the Bhartpur (Bhurtpore) State near Mowah, at a point about 65 miles east of the range of hills above mentioned. It is crossed by the

gorge, about

deep,

it

i

continues

The stream

Rajputana State Railway.

perennial, but below this point the

bed

in the

gorge near

Ramgarh

is

up except during the rains. The banks are generally about 20 feet in height, and clearly defined. In floods, which last for a few hours, the stream becomes impassable, and in the gorge near Ramgarh, the water rises sometimes to a height of 23 feet. After flowing through Bhartpur (Bhurtpore) and Dholpur States into Agra District, North-Western Provinces, it joins the Jumna (Jamund) in lat. 27° n. and long. 78° 32' e., after a course of about 200 dries

A temple, called Jumwa-Devi, situated in the gorge, is visited by the Rajas of Jaipur on their accession to the gadt. Here they are shaved, the process being part of the ceremony connected with the miles.

accession.

Banganga {Arrow-rii'er

).

—A

hill

stream rising

in the

south of Nepal,

which, after forming the boundary between Nepdl State and the tarai, flows into Basti

joins the

Burhi Rapti

down

District,

at

and

after a course of

Karmani-ghat.

A

Oudh

about 18 miles

considerable quantity of

from the Nepal forests. Bangaon {Bongong). Sub-division of Nadiya District, Bengal, lying between 22° 52' and 23° 25' 15" n. lat., and between 88° 42' and 89° timber

is

floated

this river

—

4' 45" E. long.; area, 649 square miles; population (i88i) 362,126, comprising 136,883 Hindus, 225,208 Muhammadans, and 35 ‘others;’