BHOPAL AGENCY—BHOR GHAT.
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spreads a fine
mile broad; 4^ miles long and town another 2 miles in length. From these lakes, by the liberality of the Kudsia Begam, the town is now plentifully supplied Avith water the waterworks are in charge of an English engineer, and the water is to be supplied to the people, free, for ever. The Political Agent lives at Sehore, the head-quarters of the Bhopal contingent, 20 miles distant from Bhopdl. Distant from Allahabad 325 miles south-west; from Calcutta, via Sambalpur and Nagpur, 790 miles.
fort
and on the
artificial lake,
east of the
—
Bhopal Agency. A collection of Native States, under the political superintendence of the Governor-General’s Agent for Central India. Bounded south and east by the Central Provinces, and north and west by various Native
and Rajputana.
States of Central India
Area, about
87 19 square miles ; estimated population (1881)1,291,358. The nine States comprising the Agency are Bhopal, Rajgarh, Narsinhgarh,
Kurwai, Maksudangarh, Khilchipur, Basoda, Muhammadgarh, and Pathari, all of which see separately. In addition to the above, the Political Agent Avhose head-quarters are at Bhopal has also charge of isolated patches of territory belonging to the States of Gwalior,
The
Indore, Tonk, and Dewas.
following guaranteed Thakurates are
also included in this Agency, viz. Agra-Barkhera, Dagria, Daria-Kheri,
Dhabla-Dhir, Dhabla-Ghosi, Duleta, Hi'rapur, Jabria, Jhalera, Kamalpur, Kdkar-Kheri, Khajuri, Kharsia, Piplia-nagar, Ramgarh, Sutalia, and
Tappa.
—
Bhor. Native State within the Political Agency of Satara, in the Deccan, Bombay Presidency. Estimated area, 1491 square miles; population (1881) 145,872; number of villages, 486; gross revenue, inclusive of import and export duties, about ^^46,450. Except in one tract,
where the land
fourths of the soil
products
— rice
is
and
is level,
the country
7idgli
caste,
covered with
is
The
hills.
blue and grey
Bhor
(Eleusine corocana).
feudatories of the old Satara raj.
Brahmans by
is
red, the remainder
is
Threeprincipal
one of the
family of the chief are Hindus,
and they hold a sanad authorizing adoption
the
family follows the rule of primogeniture, and the succession has been
maintained by several adoptions. The Chief holds the title ofjdgirddr of Bhor and Pant Sachev, and he ranks in the first class of Deccan sarddrs.
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He
maintains for other than military purposes a retinue of
follovA’ers.
A
tribute of
^^s.,
being the
commuted
elephant subsidy hitherto annually paid to the Chief,
is
value of
paid to the
Government. There are 25 schools, with 723 pupils. Chief town of the Bhor State in the Deccan, Bombay Bhor.
British
—
Presidency; 25 miles south of Poona (Puna). 73° 53' 25"
Lat.
18° 9' n., long.
E.
Bhor Ghat.
— Pass across the
Western Ghats, 40 miles south-east of
