BARAKUD U—BARAMAHAL.
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which the citadel of Adoni stands, in Bellary District, Madras Presidency. Height, 800 feet above the plain. Half-way up is a fine tank which is never drj-, and on the summit grows a fig-tree forming a landmark for 20 or 30 miles in every direction. Barakudu. A division {muttd) of the Godairi taluk, Vizagapatam
—
Madras
District,
villages, is
to
The
Presidency.
among
Godairi estate, containing
150
those proscribed by the Meriah Agency, as addicted
—
human sacrifice See Godairi. Barakulid Khal. — River in .
the Twenty-four Parganas, Bengal, forming part of the Outer Sundarbans Passage, one of the chief boat
routes by
means of which
the Eastern Districts.
watercourse,
artificial
connects the Barakulia with the Kalindf
Baral.
— River
in Rajshahi
in Bengal,
District.
police station,
and
It
on between Calcutta and
carried
traffic is
An
an important the
leaves
the Sahib Khali,
river.
offshoot
of the Ganges
parent stream near Charghat
flows eastwards through the southern portion of
passes into Pabna. It was formerly navigable throughout the year, but during the present century a sandbank has formed across its mouth, obstructing the free passage of water from the District, until
it
The Baral throws Musa Khan and the Xandakuja,
the Ganges for six or seven months of every year.
out two offshoots to the north, the the latter a river of
some magnitude, which
distance to the north of the Chalan
joins the Atrai a short
bil.
—
Bara Lacha. Mountain pass in Kangra District, Punjab, over the Western Himalayas, from Dareha in Lahiil to the Rupshii country in Ladakh. Lat. 32° 49' n., long. 77° 28' e. elevation above the sea,
16,500
feet.
cart road
Can be crossed by laden yaks and
ponies.
An
excellent
might be constructed without difficulty. Old raised road or alt in Sibsagar District, Assam Bar-Ali. Province, running from Nazira to Dikhu-mukh. Length, 22 miles; annual cost of maintenance, ;£ 204. Much of the original embankment, constructed by forced labour under the Aham dynasty, has been cut
away by
—
floods of the Brahmaputra.
Baramahal parts or
all
{The
Twelve Estates
').
—A
former Division, including
of the Tripatur, Kistnagiri, Dharampur, Uttankarai, Osiir,
and Denkamkotai taluks of the present Salem and North Arcot Districts, Madras Presidency. Lat. 12° 5' to 12° 45' N., long. 78° 10' to 30' E. Twelve forts Krishnagiri, Jaya Rangarh, Varangarh, 79°
—
Kavalgarh, Mdhardjgarh, Biijangarh, Gajangarh, Kattiragarh, Tripatur.
Vaniambadi, Satharasangarh, and Thatukallu
on
either side of
it
ran the Ghats.
— protected
the tract, and
Originally part of the Vijayanagar
domains, and governed by the Anagiindi branch of that family, it passed in 1668 under Mysore rule. Early in the next century the Pathan
Nawabs
of Karpa possessed themselves of the Baramahal, but, after a
