BHAND ARIA— BHANG AREA T.
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Bhandard has a
District court, post-office,
police head-quarters,
Government dispensary,
bungalow, assistant engineer’s
travellers’
public library, and Government zild school
two indigenous schools
Bhandaria.
Bombay
— Petty
and
for Marathi,
also a girls’ school,
for Persian
of Undsarviya
State
jail,
office,
and
and Urdu.
District
Kathiawar,
in
Presidency, consisting of one village, with three independent
Estimated revenue, ;^48o; a tribute of ^30,145
tribute-payers.
paid to the Gdekwar, and
— Ancient
Bhander. Provinces.
^i,
los. to the
town
bank of the Pahuj
river,
Jhansi
in
25” 43' 30" N.,
Lat.
Nawab
long.
District,
55"
78° 47'
is
of Junagarh.
North-Western
On
e.
the
left
Population
distant 24 miles from Jhansi.
Area of (1881) 5605, namely, 4804 Hindus and 80 r Muhammadans. town site, 208 acres. For police and conservancy purposes, a small revenue is raised under the provisions of Act xx. of 1856. Stands in the midst of picturesque rocky scenery, and spreads over the side of a West of the town, a large lake-like tank hill into the plain beneath. has been formed by throwing a dam across the bed of a stream flowing into the Pahiij. On the hill above, remains of tanks, wells, and temples, apparently
mark the ancient site of a Buddhist monastery like origin do service in the town as door-steps
carved granite stones of or
The
pillars.
principal mosque, built during the reign of Aurangzeb,
consists in large part of Buddhist columns.
Trade and population
declining under pressure of cholera and famine, which have caused tracts. The town contains many ruined Manufacture of kharua cloth, exported to Mau (Mhow), Gwalior, and Kalpi; also of white blankets. Police station,
emigration to more favoured or vacant houses.
school, grain
post-office, sar}'.
market,
considerable bazar, sardi,
dispen-
Bharauli, 3 miles south-east, has a temple of ancient date
still
unmutilated.
Ehandeswar. rising abruptly
—
Hill in Hazarib^gk t)istrict, Bengal wild, uninhabited tract to an
from a
a bare rock
elevation of 1759
above sea level. The hill is very difficult of ascent, and is crowned by a perpendicular rock 20 feet in height. There are several smaller peaked hills of the same character in the neighbourhood. feet
Bhandup.
— Sesaport
in Salsette,
4 miles south-west of Thana town
and Central India Railway. Lat. Bhandup had formerly a large rum
Thana
District,
Bombay
Presidency
Bombay, Baroda,
a station on the
19° 8' 45" n., long.
72° 59' 15"
e.
was closed in 1880. Bhdnga. Trading village in Fan'dpur District, Bengal situated on the Kumar river. Chief imports rice, paddy, salt, mustard, and distillery, which
—
piece-goods 23'
35"
N.,
principal exports
long. 90°
i'
20"
E.
—
jute,
— V.llage
molasses, and sugar.
Population (1881) 1461.
of non-residents attend the market on
Bhangarhat.
—
Mondays and
in the District of the
Lat.
23“
A large number
Fridays.
Twenty-four Parganas,
