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autumn rains, and sparsely and hamlets being widely scattered and built upon
regularly inundated by the river during the
inhabited, the villages
slightly elevated sites. The upland tract is by far the richest part of the pargand, and contains many large and populous villages, some with large
masonry
buildings,
embowered
and
in groves
dense and apparently prosperous population. luxuriant crops
j
and with a producing
facilities for irrigation.
R^jputana — See Bhartpur. — Bombay Presidency. —Sub-division of Khandesh
Bhurtpore.
Bhusawal.
easy
fruit-trees,
Soil excellent,
State in
.
District,
Area, 571 square miles; contains 3 towns and 185 villages. tion (1881) 96,160, namely, 49,707 males and 46,453
Hindus number 85,656; Muhammadans, 7183 north-west and along the Tapti the country
Populafemales.
Tothe
‘others,’ 3321.
and monotonous. The south-east of the Sub-division, which stretches into Berar, though flat, is here and there broken by babiil groves, especially along the banks of the Puma. The rest is more or less undulating, with straggling hillocks covered with loose stones and boulders. Along the north-east boundary runs a bold range of hills. The Sub-division is scantily wooded, and without the mango groves so abundant in other parts of the District. The tract between the Puma river and the hills from the Suki river to the eastern frontier is ruined by its deadly climate, and repeated attempts to re-colonise deserted villages have failed. Elsewhere, the Sub-division is fairly healthy. There is plenty Besides
of surface water.
Sur
and
Puma
the
tributaries,
Bhagavati,
Of
Sub-division.
the
flat
is
Tapti river in
the
and Wdghar,
there
north,
and the minor are over 2000 irrigation
the two kinds of black
soil,
with
its
streams, wells
in
the the
the rich alluvial clay
found north of Edlabad cannot be surpassed. In the east of Kurha, where it gives place to a rich black loam, it yields the finest crops. The other soils are mostly mixed red and brown. In the north-east is poor, and the waste lands are generally dry and rocky. Along the river-banks are small alluvial plots called dehli. Of 566 miles, the total area surveyed in detail, 10 miles are occupied by the
the soil
The remainder, according to the revenue survey returns, comprises 288,808 acres, or 81 'ii per cent, of cultivable
lands of alienated villages. land, of 5 1
which 171,810 acres were under cultivation; 54,567
'32 per cent, of uncultivable
of village
sites,
roads, rivers,
land
and 12,709
and streams.
acres, or
acres, or 3'57 percent,
Total land revenue of the
In 1883, Bhusawal contained 1877-78, ^^24,350. I civil and 3 revenue courts, with 2 police stations (ihdnds ) ; strength of regular police, 118 men ; village watchmen (chaiikiddrs), 395. Sub-division
in
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Bhusawal. Chief town of the Sub-division Khandesh District, Bombay Presidency; 64 Eat. 21°
i'
30"
N., long. 75° 47' E.
of the
same name
in
miles east of Dhulia.
population (1881) 9613, of
whom
