BASINAKONDA—BASORHI.
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The most
striking buildings
troops and established a mint at Basim. are the temple
and tank of
about 100 years ago by The town has a post-office,
Balaji, constructed
Bhawani Kalu, a general of the Bhonslas. and two good Government
police station,
Municipal revenue
schools.
(1880-81) ^262 ; expenditure, ^384; incidence of municipal taxation, 5Jd. per head of population. A rock in the Madanapalli idluk, Cuddapah Basinakonda.
—
height, 660 feet above the town of Madras Presidency Madanapalli, or 2800 feet above sea level. On the summit stands a pagoda to Vekatashaswami, who is supposed to have placed one foot here while travelling to the sacred pagoda at Tripatti, the other foot resting on Gandikdt. Basi Tang (or Taung). Mountain range in the Chittagong Hill Principal peak, Basi tang (21° 31' n. lat, and 92° 29' Tracts, Bengal. District,
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E. long.);
The
height, 2181 feet.
hills
are very steep, thickly covered
with jungle, and uninhabited.
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Baskhari. Town in Faizabad District, Oudh 9 miles west of and 50 miles south-east of Faizabad. Founded by a famous Muhammadan saint, named Makhdum Ashraf, about 1388 a.d., and
Birhar,
Population (i88i) 2471, in the possession of his descendants. namely, Hindus 1808, and Muhammadans 663 ; 3 mosques and 3 Hindu temples ; police station Government school.
still
Basoda.
— Native
State in the Bhopal Agency, under the agent to
the Governor-General for
Central
India
originally
a feudatory of
was seized by Sindhia, but was restored by order of the British Government, and all connection with Gwalior has since ceased. It pays no tribute, and is now directly under the British In 1817
Sindhia.
it
Government. The capital of the State 77 ° 55' descent.
The
E.
chief bears the
is
title
in
of
23° 50' 50" n.,
lat.
Nawab, and
is
and
long.
a Pathan by
Area, 22 square miles; population (1881) 7722, distributed and occupying 1362 houses; density, 353 persons per
in 19 villages,
square mile; revenue, ;^iooo.
The
military force consists of 3 guns,
8 artillerymen, 12 sowars^ and 60 policemen.
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Tract of country and town in Kashmir State, Punjab on the Ravi river, at the foot of the southern Himalayan chain. The town, which lies in lat. 32° 33' N., and long. 75° 28' E., contains a large irregular bazar, and a handsome palace of the Raja, moated and
BasoUi.
situated
turreted like a mediaeval castle.
The Rajas
of Basohli were formerly
independent, but were subjugated by the Sikhs in 1726 a.d.
Basorhi.
—Pargand
in
Bara Banki
District,
Oudh
bounded on the
north by Daryabad, on the south by Mawai Maholara, and on the west by the Kalyani river. Area, 34 square miles, of which 25 are cultivated, the principal crops being rice, wheat, and barley. 21 374 ,
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Population (1881)
