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—
BIAS—B/DHUNA. pack-sheep with Takla Khar, in Tibet,
comprise grain, cotton, hardware,
The whole
southern produce.
name
of Bians, and
— the
and Chinese
wools, drugs, precious stones,
imports being silks
tobacco,
valley
419
sugar,
also
is
salt,
gold,
while the exports
and other
dyes,
known by
the general
inhabited by a special class of Bhutias, speaking
is
a peculiar dialect of their own.
Bias. Bias.
— One of the — River
five rivers
See Beas.
of the Punjab.
rising in the hills of
Sirmau
Bhopdl
in
State, close to
the south-western boundary of Sagar (Saugor) District, Central Pro-
vinces
flows in a north-easterly direction, passing, within 10 miles of
Sagar, beneath a fine iron suspension bridge of 200 feet span, built
by
Colonel
Presgrave
Narsinghgarh, in
Damoh
— —
in
1832,
and
falls
into
the
Sonar
near
District.
Guaranteed Thakurate under the Western Malwa Bichhraud. Agency of Central India. Bickaneer. State, Rajputdna. See Bikaner. Bidar {Bedar). Town in the Nizam’s Dominions, Haidarabad (Hyderabad), Deccan situated near the right bank of the Manjera, 75 miles north-west of Haidarabad town. Lat. 17° 53' n., long. 77° 34' e. It was the capital of the Bahmani Muhammadan dynasty, which ruled up to the middle of the i6th century. The town is surrounded by an extensive curtain, now much dilapidated, on one of the bastions of which lies an old gun 21 feet long. There is a minaret in the town 100 feet high, and on a plain to the south-west stand many large tombs.
—
The
place
This
noted for the metal ware to which
is
an alloy of copper, lead,
is
tin,
articles of very elegant design, inlaid
times also with gold.
which
is
An
its name. worked into generally with silver, but some-
and
interesting
it
has given
which
is
account of the manufacture,
said to be gradually dying out, will be found in Balfour’s
Cyclopcedia of India^ vol.
Bldesir.
—Town
i.
pp. 369, 370.
in Bikaner (Bickaneer) State,
48' 50" N., long. 74° 22' 15" Povvlett, in the Gazetteer
E.,
Of Agarwalas,
there are about 18 houses. is
lat.
27°
Captain
A number of of Bikaner^ says of this place Oswals, of whom there are 224 houses.
live here, chiefly
Bidesir
Rajputana;
about 60 miles from Bikaner.
wealthy Seths
men.
zinc,
Perhaps 30 of these are rich
not a place of manufacture or
much
trade.
The
bazaar contains about 136 shops, and there are 10 temples, and almost
many
Fairly good water is reached at the depth of about below the surface. Inferior sand and limestone are obtained Post-office. in the neighbourhood. Bidhuna. North-eastern tahsil of Etawah District, North-Western Provinces. Area, 314 square miles, of which 141 are cultivated; as
100
chhatris.
feet
—
population (1881) 138,149 ; land revenue, ^25,674 ; total Government revenue, ;^28,79i ; rental paid by cultivators, ;^4o,456 ; incidence of
