BHARTPUR. a railway station
371
on the East Indian Railway. The place was selected on account of its central position,
as the head-quarters of the tahsil
but
is
The Government
otherwise unimportant.
offices,
together with
the police station, distillery, post-office, sardi, and market,
north of the railway line close to the station, the village
A
a quarter of a mile to the north.
produce
is
Agent
on the being
sale of country
held on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Bhartpur {Bharatpur ).
— Native
superintendence of
political
market for the
lie
itself
a
State
Political
in
Rajputana, under the
Agent,
subordinate to the
to the Governor-General of India for the States of
Rajputana and 27° 49' n. lat., and between 76° 54' and 77° 48' E. long. It is bounded on the north by the British District of Gurgaon on the east by the Districts of Muttra and Agra on the south-east, south, and south-west by the native States of Dholpur, Karauli (Kerowlee), and Jaipur (Jeypore) ; and on the west by Alwar (Ulwur). It is about 77 miles in length from north to south, and lying between 26° 42'
63 miles in breadth;
area,
1974 square miles.
Population (1881)
645 54 °>
The
general appearance of the State
is flat
and rather low, especially
towards the north, the average height of the surface being about 600
and about 50
above the water surface of the is interrupted by detached hills in the north and south, and by low ranges on some parts of the western and south-eastern frontier, but the general aspect feet
above the
Jumna.
is
an
sea,
The uniform
alluvial plain, fairly
feet
character
of the country
wooded.
In the
rains,
owing to the low
level,
amount of surface is flooded. The soil of a great part hard and dry, and in places much deteriorated by sand. The State
a considerable is
suffers its
from want of water, but
is
made
productive by the industry of
inhabitants.
The geological formation of Bhartpur is alm.ost entirely of the sedimentary class, and the exposed rocks may be divided into three classes— the alluvial the series called Vindhyan, which occur in the range running from Fatehpur Sikri towards Hindaun ; and the quartzite. About 13 miles west of Biana, near the town of Nilhara, are two small
hills
of a peculiar breccia, probable representatives of the
Khaimur
conglomerate.
The principal hills of the State are a low range forming the boundary between pargands Pahari and Gopalgarh, of Bhartpur and Firozpur and Alwar, running north and south, the highest point of which (Chapra) is 1222 feet. The Kalapahar, close to the Alwar frontier, contains The the highest summit in Bhartpur, Mount Alipur, 1351 feet. Sidgirpahar range runs on the south-eastern frontier in a direction north-east to south-west for a length of about 30 miles, the highest point, Usera, being 817 feet;
in
it
are situated the celebrated Bansi-
