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banks, subject in flood-time to inundation from the central stream.
its
The main channel
broad and
is
ill
defined, full of islands,
5
feet
and expand-
The depth does not exceed
ing from time to time into wide pools. in dry weather, swelling to
country
flat-bottomed
throughout the year.
boats
No
15 feet during the rains. navigate this portion of the
Broad, stream
bridges span the Beas in the Districts of
Hoshiarpur or Gurdaspur. After touching Jalandhar District for a few miles, the Beas forms the boundary between Amritsar and the Kapurthala State. At Wazir Bholar ghat it is crossed by a railway bridge on the Sind, Punjab, and Delhi line the
and a bridge of boats on
maintained at the same place during the The channel shifts from year to year through the alluvial
Grand Trunk Road
cold season.
is
valley according to the action of the floods.
Finally, the Beas joins
the Sutlej (Satlaj) at the southern boundary of the Kapurthala State, after a
course of 290 miles.
total
It
ranks sixth in size
among
the
rivers of the Punjab.
Beauleah.
—Town
District, Bengal.
Beawar
{Beawr,
Rajputana.
and administrative
head-quarters
of
Rampur Beauleah. Naydnagar). Town in Ajmere-Merwara
Rajshahi
See
Lat.
—
26°
15"
9'
N.,
long.
(1881) 15,829, namely, Hindus, 11,236;
74°
23'
20"
e.
Division,
population
Muhammadans, 2241
Jains,
218; Parsi's, 7. Founded in 1835 by Colonel Dixon, Commissioner of Ajmere-Merwara, in the neighbourhood of the cantonments, Beawar rapidly grew into a prosperous town, owing to its advantageous position between Meywar (Udaipur) and Marwar The plan was regularly drawn out from the beginning, (Jodhpur). and sites allotted to various traders who applied for shops. Fine wide a stone wall surrounding the town houses streets, planted with trees Beawar has two hydraulic cotton presses of masonry, with tiled roofs. and is the chief mart of cotton traffic for the District manufacture of ironwork trade in dyeing, and opium, which last is produced locally. Post-office, dispensary It forms the only town in the Merwara tract. Municipal revenue in head - quarters of Assistant Commissioner. 1880-81, ^4031, or ss. id. per head of population within municipal
2127;
Christians,
Expenditure, ^^2634. Bechraji. Temple in the Pattan Sub-division of Baroda State, Bombay Presidency; 25 miles from the to^yn of Viramgam, in Ahmad-
limits.
—
District. Scene of a great religious festival in the month of Aswin (September-October), to which about 20,000 persons annually resort.
abad
Bedam.
— Estate
square miles
in
Ganjam
land revenue,
District,
—
Madras Presidency.
Area, 2
Town in Murshidabad District, Bengal. (or Belddngd). Lat 23° 56' 15" N., long. 88° 18' E. population (1881) 5455, namely, 3602 Hindus, 1851 Muhammadans, and 2 ‘others.’
Bedanga
