——
— BHEEL AGENCY'— BHERA.
385
^
sum
of ;^i5o
is
yearly spent in the administration of the estate,
for the support of the
tions
Chief and his family, the balance of the
The
being devoted to the reduction of debt.
Bhedan
(pop.
and
realiza-
chief village,
1781), has an excellent school, with an average of 45
pupils.
Bheel ‘Agency.’— A collection of Native States — See Bhilwara. Shwe-gyin Bheeleng. — River and town — See Bilin.
District, British
in
—
Bheeleng-Kyaik-htO. Township Burma. See Bilin-kyaik-to.
— Island
Bheeloo-Gywon. Amherst
at
in Central India.
in
the
Shwe-gyin
mouth
of
Burma. British
District,
the
Salwin
river,
Burma. See Bilu-Gywon. the Nausharo Sub-division, Haidarabdd (Hyder-
District, British
Bhelani.
—Town
in
Bombay Presidency. Population (1881) Muhammadans, chiefly Sahitas and 750 Hindus,
abad) District, Sind,
namely, 700
Distant 18 miles north-east ofTharushah.
pally Lohanos.
P'ounded town of Halani. Amherst District, Arakan Division, British
It adjoins the
prior to the i6th century.
—
Bhenglaing. River Burma. See Binlaing. Bhensdehi.
1450, princi-
—
in
Village
in
Betul
tahsil,
Betul
District,
Central
Population (1881) 2653, namely, Hindus, 2373; Muhammadans, 192 Jains, 80; aboriginal tribes, 8. Bhera. Tahsil in Shdhpur District, Punjab; lying between 31° 54' Provinces.
50"
and 32°
35' 45" N.
and between 72°
lat.,
45’ 45"
and 73°
25' 15" e.
1181 square miles; population (1881) 167,260, namely, males 89,809, and females 77,451 ; persons per square mile, 142. Area,
long.
Hindus numbered 24,752; Muhammadans, 114,282; Sikhs, 1215; Revenue of the tahsil, ;£i 4, 2^1. The administraothers,’ 27,01 1. tive staff consists of i tahsilddr and i munsif who preside over i civil and 2 criminal courts. Number of police stations (thdnds), 9; strength Near of regular police, 138 men village watchmen {chaukiddrs), 173. the village of Vijjhi, in Bhera tahsil, is found one of the most conspicuous of the mounds abounding everywhere throughout Shahpur District, which tell of a bygone age of great prosperity, and attest the truth of the Greek accounts of hundreds of large cities in the upper Punjab, and a country teeming with population. Bhera. Town and municipality in Shdhpur District, Punjab, and Lat. 32° 29' n., long. 72° 57' e. head-quarters of Shdhpur tahsil.
‘
—
(1881) 15,165, namely, 9153 Muhammadans, 5746 Hindus, 260 Sikhs, and 6 Jains. A third-class municipality, with an income in 1880-81 of ^1151; expenditure, ;,£'i 258. It lies on the
Population
left
bank of the
VOL.
II.
Jhelum (Jehlam), and is the largest and most town in the District. The original city lay on
river
thriving commercial
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