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B HULL O OAH—BH UR. North-Western Provinces.

4795

Muhammadans,


])aved bazar

409

Population (1881) 6195, namely, Hindus, The village contains a small brick1400.

and a few good brick houses.

There

is

no external

being only sufficient to supply the wants of the agricultural communities. Connected by road with

trade, the bazar

neighbouring

Deoband

Barla and

villages

the

in

north-west,

and with Bijnaur

District across the Ganges.

Bhullooah (another name for Noakhali). District in Bengal. See Noakhali. Bhum (or Bhim). Ghat in Madras Presidency. See Chamardi. Bhlini Bakeswar. Group of hot sulphur springs on the banks of the Bakeswar about i mile south of Tantipara village in Bi'rbhum

— —

Bengal.

District,

feet

The tem-

Lat. 23° 53' 30" n., long. 87° 24' 45" e.

perature of the water varies from 128° to 162° F.

About 120 cubic

of water per minute are ejected from the hottest well.

Bhumawadi

Bhung Bara. — A

See

Township Bumawadi.

{Bhootnmawadee).

Tenasserin, British Burma.

in Taung-ngii District,

tract formerly pertaining to Sind,

and granted,

together with Sabzalkot, in 1843, to the Nawdb of Bahdwalpur, from whose ancestors it had been wrested by the Talpur Mi'rs, in reward for services rendered to the British during the

when under the Talpur Lat. of Bhung town, 28°

—Celebrated

giin village, Tenasserim, British

Bhupalpatnam.

Afghan war.

It yielded,

24' n., long. 69° 50' E.

Bhlin-maw {Bhoon-maw).

—The

Bastar State, attached

first

administration, an annual revenue of ;^6ooo.

to

Burma.

pagoda

See

in Talaing

most westerly zaminddrt or

Chanda

Thaung-

Bun-maw. estate

in

the

Central

Provinces, lying n. lat, and between 80° 18' and 80° District,

between 18°

32' 30"

50' E. long.

Area, about 700 miles; population (1881) 9943, namely, and 4845 females; number of villages, in; occupied

5098 males houses, 1799.

and

19° 9'

The zam'mddr

is a Gond. Kheri District, Oudh. One of the largest pargands in the Province; in shape an irregular parallelogram, extending from north-west to south-east Bounded on the north by Palia and Nighasan pargands, the Chauka river marking the boundarj' line ; on the east by Srinagar pargand ; on the south and west by Shdhjahdnpur District of the North-Western Provinces. Area, 376 square miles, of which 135 are under cultivation population (1881) 73,872 Hindus and 8022 Muhammadans total, 81,894. Bhur possesses one very marked

Bhur

.

L^argand in

geographical feature, in the shape of a high ridge or plateau, rising suddenly from 20 to 50 feet in height, running parallel to the river Chauka, which at one time flowed just under it. The tract between this ridge and the present course of the river comprises about onefourth of the entire pargand. It is a low-lying plain, known as the ganiar,