BARI—BARIA.
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Ahi'rs, who held the country till the when they were dispossessed by Pratip Singh, a convert to Islam, to whom a farmdn was granted by the Emperor Tughlak. Pratap Singh had three sons prior to his conversion, and
have been
Kachheras and
fourteenth century,
his Muhammadan wife. The descendants of the former are still in possession of some of their ancestors’ villages but the great bulk of his estate went to his Musalman son, whose descendants became the hereditary chaudharis of the pargand, and
one afterwards by
the present
A
title.
representative
who
Kshattriyas,
and
settled here about
facilities exist
76| are
of the
family
still
is
considerable portion of the pargand
for irrigation.
cultivated.
The
is
recognised by that
now
incidence of the Government land revenue
at the rate of 3s. 9|d. per acre of cultivated area, 2s.
of cultivable area, and
held by Bais
250 years ago. The soil is fertile, Area, 125 square miles, of which
2s.
i
q^d. per acre of total area.
(1881) 54,030, namely, 28,525 males and 25,505 females.
is
i|d. per acre
Population
Number
of
villages, 129.
—
Bari. Town in Sidhauli tahstl, Sftapur District, Oudh ; 23 miles south of Si'tipur town, and 29 miles north of Lucknow. Said to have been founded by Mubarak, son of the Emperor Humayun, who, having come to hunt in the Oudh jungles, built a shooting-box and country
house {ban) here, round which a town sprung up. Population (1881) Formerly the head-quarters of the 3102, residing in 565 mud houses. iahstl, which have been removed to Sidhauli. No trade or manufactures.
—
Village in Garhwal State, North-Western Provinces, on left Bari. bank of the Jumna (Jamund). Manufacture of woollen cloth. Lat.
30° 55' N., long. 78° 26' E.
Bari.
—Town
District of the
18 miles west
547 Baria.
Lat. 26° 38' n., long. 77° 42' e.
the territory.
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in Dholpur State, Rajputana chief place of a small same name, situated among the hills in the south-west of
—from
distance from Dholpur,
Agra, 44 miles south-west.
Population (1881)
-
,
Bombay
— Tributary State
in Rewa Kantha, in the Province of Guzerat, Presidency, lying between 22° 21' and 22° 58' n. lat, and
between 73° 41' and 74°
18' e. long.; bounded east and west by the Panch Mahals, north by the States of Sanjeli and Sunth, and south by the State of Chota Udepur. Extreme length
British District of the
north to south, 39 miles. Estimated area, 813 square miles; popu(1881) 66,822, or 82'2 per square mile; gross revenue, ^18,237. The country is hilly in the south and east, but flat in the
lation
west,
and
is
divided into
7 sub-divisions,
forest.
The
climate
is
Randhikpur, Dudhia, Umaria,
and Rajgad. Much of it is covered with damp and unhealthy, fever being the prevailing
Haveli, Kakadkhila, Sagtala,
