BHA WANI—BHEBAN.
384 Dinajpur
and fair
Bengal
District,
6 miles north of Ranisanhdil police station,
Scene of the celebrated Nekmard His saint, buried here.
mile west of the river Kulik.
I
Muhammadan
held in honour of a pir, or
tomb, in a mat hut in the middle of a mango grove, is visited during the six or seven days of the fair by about 150,000 persons from all parts of the country. The fair is opened on the first day of the Bengali year, corresponding to the loth or nth April. A great variety of articles are brought for
surrounding
Oxen come from Purniah and
sale.
Bhutan
ponies from the
the
from Kabul and the Behar Districts, elephants from the Darjiling tardi and Assam, and camels from the north-west. Mughals and Afghans bring dried fruits, embroidered saddlery, looking-glasses, etc. The hill tribes bring down blankets, woollen cloths, ponies, and yak tails. The Nepalis sell kukris (heavy bill-hooks, the national weapon of the Gurkhas) and chiretd leaf. Quantities of real and imitation coral beads are exposed for sale by the Marwari shopkeepers of Dinajpur. Besides Districts,
the above, there are English piece-goods, brass sizes,
hookahs, grain,
—
horses
Hills,
jDots
of
all
sorts
and
etc.
—
Bhawani. 7h/«//and town in Hissar District, Punjab. A^£;B hiwani. Bhawanipatna. Village in Kalahandf Feudatory State, attached
—
Sambalpur District of the Central Provinces. Population (1881) 3483, namely, Hindus 3366, and Muhammadans 117. Bhawanipur. Suburb of Calcutta, with a central lunatic asylum for
to
—
Europeans, several schools, a dispensary, 88°
23'
E.
firewood
is
The
native village
is
—Town
in
Halar
District,
Some
Kathiawar,
Eat. 21° 51' 15" N., long. 70° 17' 15"
5197, namely, 4428 Hindus, 669
Bhedan
21° 32' n., long.
trade in
carried on.
Bhayawadar. dency.
Eat.
etc.
on Tolly’s Canal.
(or
Basaikdd ).
E.
Bombay
Presi-
population (i88i)
Muhammadans, and 100 Jains. chiefship, now attached
—Ancient Cond
to
Sambalpur District, Central Provinces 24 miles south-south-west of Sambalpur town. Eat. 21° 12' N., long. 83° 47' 30" e. The population, residing in 30 villages, spread over an area of 60 square miles, consists The estate is of Brahmans, Eadras, Kultas, Conds, and Dhimals. Pulses and oil-seeds highly cultivated, the chief product being rice.
are also ing.
grown
to a small extent, while sugar-cane cultivation
The revenue
annual tribute
is
payable to Government of ^^104.
said to have been conferred family,
by Balram Deo, the
Years ago.
Manohar
spread-
The
chiefship
is
on Sisa Rai Cond, the founder of the
first
Chauhan
ruler of
Sambalpur, about 300
Singh, the chief in 1857, joined the rebels under
Surendra Sa, and being killed
in action,
was succeeded by
his
son
Owing to the embarrassed circumstances of the came under Government management. in 1878. The
Baijnath Singh, a minor. family, the estate
is
a year, and an
of the estate amounts to about
