BAJ^A GAI—BARAHTIYA. of
hills in
Cuttack
At the
District, Bengal.
ruined seat of the old
Hindu
117
foot of the
mountain
is
the
hill chieftain.
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Bardgai (or Marang Bum ). A hill in Chutia Ndgpur, Bengal. Height above the sea, 3445 feet ; above the Chutia Nagpur plateau, 1300 feet; and above the Damodar valley, 2400 feet. Lat. 23° 32' 45" N., long. 85° 29' 45" E. There is a good deal of jum cultivation on the upper slopes of the hill.
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Baragaon (or Chit-Firozpur). Town in Ballia District, NorthWestern Provinces, lying on the banks of the Little Sarju river, 10 miles west of Ballia town on the Ghdzipur Road; lat. 25° 45' 4" N., long. 84° 2' 39" E. Population (1881) 10,847, namely, Hindus, 9892, and Muhammadans, 955; area of town site, 92 acres. An important agricultural centre.
Baragdon.
—Town
in Sftdpur District,
Oudh
17 miles north-west
from Sitapur town. Population (1881) 2081. Bi-weekly market, at which cotton, salt, and iron from the North-Western Provinces are sold, and also cloth and sugar of local manufacture. Annual value of sales
Government school. Rangpur District, Bengal. Population (1881) 5668, namely, Hindus, 4571, and Muhammadans, 1097; area, 2655
estimated at
- j^ 5785.
Baragari.
— Town
in
acres.
Bara Haldibari.
—Town
Kuch Behar
in
State, Bengal.
Population
(1881) 5230, namely, males 2761, and females 2469. Barah. Tahstl of Allahabad District, North-Western Provinces, in
—
Jumna (Jamuna),
a rugged country south of the the
Kaimur
Area,
Hills.
25
2
'2
stretching
upward
to
square miles, of which i2i’5 are
cultivated; population (188 j) 53,430; land revenue,
^13,058; total The tahs'il
revenue, ;^i4,664; rental paid by cultivators, ^20,ot,2.
contains one criminal court, with two police stations (thdnds)
of regular police, 25
men;
village
watchmen
—
strength
{chauk'iddrs), 132.
Barah. Village in Allahabad District, North-Western Provinces, and head-quarters of Barah tahs'il., distant about 5 miles from the Jasra An station on the Jabalpur branch line of the East Indian Railway. inconsiderable village, with a population in 1881 of 1965. sole importance
its
from being the head-quarters of the
It derives It also
tahs'il.
contains a second-class police station, school, and post-office.
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Barah. Rural town in Ghazi'pur District, North-Western Provinces, on the alluvial plain of the Ganges. Lat. 25° 30' 30" n., long.
lies
In 1881, 83° 54' 15" E.; area, 139 acres; population (1872) 5424. the population had decreased to below 5000, and the town is not returned separately in the Census Report.
Barahtiya. Bengal. females.
— Town
Population
in
Chittagong Sub-division, Chittagong
(1881)
5043, namely,
2242
District,
males and
2801
