BI/J TURIA—BHA UNA GAR. sandy
Skirts the borders of the great
desert,
Numerous
small and scattered population.
and
379
at present contains
and
ruins of towns
a
villages
show
that the valley of the Ghagar, and the tract on either side of it, was once the home of a thriving people. But Timur, who passed through the District on his invasion of India, devastated the tract, and when it came into our hands it was almost uninhabited. It has since been settled by immigrants from the Sikh States and Rajputana, and
the population
The Ghagar
fast increasing.
is
a valley of
flows in
of some three to four miles in width, within which
alluvial clay
its
But the rude dams which it was the custom to construct have lately been removed on the complaint of the Bikaner State. The stream, which once joined the Sutlej waters are used for irrigation purposes.
now
(Satlaj)
near Bahawalpur,
At
close of the last century, the tract, then utterly deserted,
the
disappears in the desert of Bikaner.
into the hands of the Bhattis, a
fell
band of nomads and robbers, who
planted a few fortified villages in the midst of the waste, as places of
In 1795, George Thomas, the
refuge on the approach of danger.
adventurer of Mariana, extended his influence over the Bhatti chiefs,
who
paid him at least a nominal allegiance.
Lord Lake
After the victories of
in 1803, Bhattiana passed with the rest of the Delhi terri-
tory under British rule
but no practical steps were taken to secure
until 1810. A military force was then despatched against two Bhatti chieftains, Bahadur Khan and Zabta Khan, who had proclaimed their independence. Bahadur Khan was overpowered and expelled the country ; but Zabta Khfln swore fealty this
outlying
possession
Government, and secured possession of
to the British
his territory for
In 1818, however, he connived at certain attacks
the time.
and a second
made
was sent to expel him and confiscate his estates. After protracted boundary disputes with the Sikh States, a District of Bhattiina was formed in 1837 and when it passed in 1858 to the Punjab Government, it was called SiRSA District, which name it now bears.
against Fatehab^.d within British limits
Bh^Lturia.
—Village
in
Bardwan
force
Lat. 23° 26' n.,
District, Bengal.
long. 88° 20' E.
Bhaun.
—Town
in
Chakwdl
tahs'il,
Jhelum (Jehlam)
Population (1881) 5080, namely, Muhammadans, 3262 and Sikhs, 214; number of occupied houses, 461.
Bhaunagar
{Bkdvanagar).
— Native
State
Punjab. Hindus, 1604;
District,
within
the
British
Province of Gujardt (Guzerat), Bombay Presidency, lying between 20° 56' 30" and 22° 16' 30" N. lat., and
Agency of Kdthiawdr, between 71°
in the
and 72°
2860 square miles; villages, and consisting of 346,094 Hindus, of the Vaishnav, Smdrta, and Jain sects, 37,040 Muhammadans, and 17,189 ‘others.’ Gross revenue, 16'
population in
20' 45" e. long.;
1881, 400,323,
distributed
area,
among 659
