BIDHUNA—BIHAR.
420
Government revenue,
per acre.
6|d.
2S.
The
tahsil contains
2
criminal courts, with 5 police stations {(hands) ; strength of regular police, 56 men; village watchmen {chaukiddrs), 293.
—
Bidhlina. Village in Etawah District, North-Western Provinces, and head-quarters of Bidhiina tahsil situated on the Etawah and Kanauj road, 32 miles distant from Etawah town, and i mile from the Rind uadi, which is here crossed by a bridge. The village is only important as the head-quarters of the tahsil, which were removed here after the Mutiny on account of the more central position of the present site. Bidhiina is connected with the Achalda station, on the East Indian Railway, by a raised and bridged road. North of the village are the ruins of an old fort. Market twice a week. Police station. Bidi (or Khdnapur). Sub-division of Belgaum District, Bombay
—
Presidency. tion
(1881)
Hindus number 69,547; Muhammadans, 4815 Sub-division stations
men
Popula-
Area, 632 square miles; contains 219 villages. 79,264, namely, 39,996 males and 39,268
contained
in
1883,
criminal
2
{(hands)-, strength of regular police,
females.
‘others,’ 4902.
with
courts,
The police
6
54 men; village watch-
{chaukiddrs), 382.
Bidyadhari.
— River
in the District of the
Lat. 22° 21' to 22° 27' N., long.
Bengal.
from the Sundarbans on the
name
east,
Twenty-four Parganas,
88° 43' to 88° 50'
Flows
e.
northwards past Harua, where
it
takes
Harua Gang after which it bends to the west, and is joined by the Nona Khal it then flows south-west to the junction of the Baliaghata and Tolly’s canals, and afterwards south-east to Canning town. Here the Karatoya and the Atharabanka join it, and the united the
of the
stream
south through
passes
the
Sundarbans as the Matla
river,
Bay of Bengal under that name. It forms part of both the two channels (known as the Outer and Inner Sundarbans Passages) by entering the
which the
traffic
of Calcutta with the eastern Districts
Principal river-side villages
— Malancha,
Basra,
is
carried on.
and Pratapnagar
trade
in firewood.
Bihar.
— Pargand
situated in beautiful
the
and
District, Oudh in Partabgarh (Pratapgarh) extreme south of the Province. One of the most
fertile
mahud
tracts
in
Oudh
celebrated
for
its
magnificent
numerous lakes and jhils which stud Area, 228 square miles, of which 108 are cultivated its surface. population (1881) 128,344, namely, Hindus, 114,036; and Muhammadans, 14,308. The proportion of high castes is above the average. Of the 237 villages which make up the pargand, 184 are held in tdlukddri tenure by four Bisen proprietors, known as the Bhadri, and the Kundrajit, Dahiawan and Shaikhpur Chauras tdlukddrs remaining 53 are held under mufrdd tenure by 480 individuals. Brahmans hold 4 villages; Bisens, 14; Kayasths, 8; Raikwars, only groves of
trees
and
for the
