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There is a town school, court-houses, jail, postand a police station the District post from Dumagudiem to Rajamandri passes through the town. About 20,000 people, chiefly from the coast, attend the fair, held every April, when English and country cloth, sugar, opium, spices, hardware, etc., change hands to the value of about ^5000. of great antiquity. office, treasury,
Bhadrakh.
— Sub-division of Balasor
beUveen and 87° e. long. area, 909 square miles number of villages, 3009 number of occupied houses, 72,230; population (1881) 425,573, namely, 414,417 Hindus 20° 44'
and 21°
District, Bengal, lying
and between 86“
15' N. lat.,
18' 40"
Muhammadans, 66
(97 '3 per cent, of the population), 10,978
and 52 ‘others;’ number of males, 203,404, or 477 per population
—females,
square mile
222,169; average density of population, 469 per per square mile, 3 '3 ; houses per square mile,
villages
8 2 '8; persons per
Christians,
cent, of the
The Sub140; persons per house, 5 '9. ^^d comprises the thdnds (police circles)
village,
division was formed in 1847,
of Bhadrakh, Basudebpur, Dharmnagar, and Chandbali.
In 1883,
it
contained 4 magisterial courts, and a total police force of ion men, of whom 895 belonged to the village watch {chauk'iddrs and pdiks).
Bhadrakh.
— Head-quarters
town of the Bhadrakh Sub-division,
Balasor District, Bengal ; situated on the high road between Calcutta and Cuttack. Lat 21° 3' 10" n., long. 86“ 33' 25" e.; estimated popula(1870), 7801.
tion
Not
separately
shown
as a
town
in the
Census
Returns of 1872 or 1881.
Bhadreswar village,
in the
Most of the stone
(or Bhadravatl).
south-east of
—
Site of
Kachchh
an ancient
(Cutch),
architectural remains have been
but the place
is still
dome
interesting for
part of the
well,
and two mosques, one of the
A
removed
now
latter
a petty
Presidency. for building-
Jain temple, for the pillars
of a Sivaite shrine with an interesting
and
from the shore.
its
city,
Bombay
wdv
or
almost buried by drifting sand
very ancient seat of Buddhist worship; but the
now existing belong to temples erected subsequent to when one Jagadeva Sah, a merchant who had made a fortune
earliest ruins
1125
A.D.,
as a grain dealer in a time of famine, received a grant of Bhadreswar,
The in repairing the temple ‘removed all traces of antiquity.’ temple was a celebrated place of pilgrimage in the 12th and 13th At the close of the 17th century, the temple was pluncenturies. and
dered by the Muhammadans, and many of the images of the Jain Since then it has been neglected, and
Tirthankars were broken.
having fallen into ruins, the temple stones, and those of the old city were used for the building of the seaport town of Munra or Mundra. Described by Mr. Burgess in his ArchcEoIogical Survey of Western India. Bhadreswar. Town in Hugh' District, Bengal, situated on the
fort,
—
right
bank of the Hugh'
river,
and a
station
on the East Indian Railway.
