BASURHA T—BA TALA.
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2’xo; houses per square mile, 144; persons per village, 424; persons The Sub-division consists of the thdnds (police
per house, 6'38. I
circles)
of Baduria, Basurhat, Harua, and Husainabad.
contained
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Twenty-four Parganas,
Bengal, the head-quarters of Basurhat Sub-division, and a municipality. Population (1881) 14,843, of whom Lat. 22° 40' N., long. 88° 53' 35" e.
8995 were Hindus and 5848 Muhammadans; area of town
site,
5520
acres; municipal income in 1881-82, ;^695. I
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In 1883,
and 2 criminal courts strength of regular watchmen (chauk'iddrs), 603.
2 civil
Basva Patna.
—Village
Shimoga
in
District,
Mysore
State.
Lat.
The resipopulation (1881) 988.
dence of the founder of the Tarikere family of pdlegdrs, in the i6th 14° 12' 5" N., long. 75° 50' 55" E.
century. Haidar Ali razed the by the Marathas in 1791.
— Town
Baswa.
in
fortifications,
and the town was sacked
the Shaikhawatf District of Jaipur (Jeypore)
Walled, Rajputdna, about 120 miles north-west from Jaipur. and possesses a fort of some pretensions. Post-office. Population State,
(1881) 5791.
Batala.
— Tahstl of Gurdaspur
Punjab
District,
miles; population (1881) 255,131, namely,
area,
480 square
Muhammadans, 132,758;
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Hindus, 71,337; Sikhs, 50,943; and ‘others,’ 93; persons per square
Revenue of the
mile, 532.
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presiding over
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civil
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munstf,
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criminal court.
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Town and municipality in Gurdaspur District, Punjab, Batdila. and head-quarters of Batala tahstl situated on the main road from Amritsar to Gurdaspur and Pathdnkot distant 24 miles from Amritsar, and 20 miles from Gurdaspur. Lat. 31° 48' 33" n., Batala is the largest town in Gurdaspur District, long. 75° 14' 3" E.
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a population (1881) of 24,281, namely, 8379 Hindus, 15,124 Sikhs, and 21 ‘others.’ The town was founded
Muhammadans, 757
about the year 1465, during the reign of Bahlol Lodi, by Rdi Ram Deo, a Bhatti Rajput, on a piece of land granted by Tatar Khan, Governor of Lahore. Akbar gave it in jdgtr to Shamsher Khan, his foster-brother, who greatly improved and beautified the town, and built without it a magnificent tank, which still exists in perfect repair. Under
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first by the Ramgarhias, and by the Kanhya confederacy. On their return from the Ramgarhia chiefs again recovered the town, and retained it
the Sikh commonwealth, Batala was held after their expulsion, exile, till
the rise of Ranjit Singh.
After the annexation of the Punjab, Batala
was made the head-quarters of a Gurdaspur. Considerable trade,
District,
subsequently transferred to
estimated
at
an annual value of
