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BHONGA ON— BHOPAL.
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Area, 463 square miles, of which 264 are cultivated population (1881) revenue, 204,353 > ^^29,729 ; total Government revenue,
,^^32,256.
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Bhongdon. Town in Mainpurf District, North-Western Provinces, and head-quarters of Mainpuri tahsU. Lat. 27° 15' 30" N., long. 79° 12' 45" E. Distant 9^ miles east from Mainpuri, at the junction of the Agra and Grand Trunk roads. Population (1881) 6778, namely, Hindus, 4534; Muhammadans, 2036; and Jains, 208. 'rhe place
is
merely a collection of straggling hamlets, with
The houses
tensions to rank as a town.
little
generally are built of
pre-
mud,
and the few brick ones are so scattered as to be hardly noticeable. A small municipal income in the shape of a house tax for police and conservancy purposes is raised under the provisions of Act xx. of 1856.
Two
bazars, sardi (native inn), tahsili, police station, good-sized jhil or
lake,
modern mosque and temple.
poor
travellers,
who
The
latter contains
lodgings free to
from the owner. by Raja Bhim Sen, who
also receive a daily dole of grain
The town was founded, according
to tradition,
was cured of leprosy by bathing in the jhil. Bhongaon possessed some importance under the Mughal Emperors, and has a ruined fort on an artificial mound ; but its trade has now shifted to towns upon the railway. Bhoommawadee. Township in Taung-ngu District, British Burma.
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—See Bumawadi. Bhoon-maw. Pagoda
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maw. Bhopdl.
in
Tenasserim, British Burma.
See
Bun-
— Native State
in Malwa, in the Bhopdl Political Agency of under the political superintendence of the GovernorGeneral’s Agent for Central India; lying between 22° 32' and 23° 46' N. lat., and between 76° 25' and 78° 50' e. long.; area, 6873
Central
India,
population miles; estimated revenue, _^,C4oo,ooo (1881) 954,901, namely, 498,643 males and 456,258 females, or 139 persons Number of large towns, 4 villages, 3006 to the square mile.
square
houses, 184,808;
population
number of persons per occupied house,
by caste
distributed
as
follows
5'i6.
The
Hindus,
747,004 Muhammadans, 82,164; Jains, 6022; Christians, 155; Sikhs, 136; Bounded on the north and west Parsi's, 2; aboriginal tribes, 119,418. by Sindhia’s territory and several petty States of the Central India Agency east by the British District of Sdgar (Saugor) ; and south by is
The the Narbadd (Nerbudda), and by Holkar’s territory of Aimawar. ruler is a female and an Afghan of the Mirdzai Khel tribe ; she succeeded her mother
in 1868,
and her daughter Sultan Jahan Begam
is
(1884) the recognised heir to the State. The Bhopdl dynasty was founded by Dost in the
service of Aurangzeb,
Muhammad, an Afghan who took advantage of the revolutions
which followed the death of the Emperor
to establish his
independent
