BIJNI—BIKANER. the royal family of
Kuch
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Besides being the revenue-collector
Behar.
under Government of Bijni Dwar, he is also zammddr of the two pargands of Khuntaghat and Habraghat in the permanently settled The l^ortion of Godlpara District, with an area of 942^^ square miles. estate has recently been administered under the Court of Wards during the minority of the Raja. The average annual rental was found to be An accumu;^i2,i6o, while the Government revenue is only ;^235. lated surplus of ^79,047 was handed over to the you.ng Raja when he
came
of age.
— Largest
Dwar
of the same name, forming one Goalpara District, Assam ; on the north bank of the Dalani river, which is here crossed by a ferry. Lat. 26° 30' N., long. 90° 47' 40" E. There is a small bazar. See Bijnor. District, tahsil, and town, North-Western Provinces BrjNAUR. Chief village of an estate of that name in Udaipur Bijoli. (Oodeypore) Native State, Rajputana. Situated about 100 miles north-east of Udaipur, and the residence of a first-class noble of the Bijni.
village in the
Dwars attached
of the Eastern
to
— —
.
who owns 76 villages. Native Bikaner {Bickaneer
—
State,
—
).
superintendence of a
State in Rajputana, under the political
Agent and the Governor-General’s Agent for Rajputana, lying between 27° 12' and 30° 12' N. lat., and between 72° 15' and 75° 50' E. long. The area according to the Census return of 1881 is 22,340 square miles ; but this can only be an inference, a large portion
as
is
Political
unsurveyed. Number of villages, 1739, Popnlation (1881) 509,021, namely, Hindus,
still
including 6 chief towns.
436,190; Muhammadans, 50,874; Jains, 21,943; and Christians, 14. Bikaner is bounded on the north-west by Bahawalpur, a Muham-
madan
State on the north-east by the British Districts of Sirsa and Hissar in the Punjab; on the east by Jaipur (Jeypore); on The the south and south-west by Jodhpur and Jaisalmir (Jeysulmere). southern, and most of the north-eastern portions of the State, form part of the vast sandy tract known as the Bagar, comprising also Marwar and the north of Jaipnr. The north-west and part of the north lie within the Thar or Great Indian Desert; the north-east corner, ad;
joining Sirsa,
is
the least
unfertile section
favourable years flooded by the Sotra. State are at the borders of Jaipur
The
of the State, being in only rocky
not more than 500 feet above the level of the plain. of Bikaner, south-west
and stony is
hills in
the
and Jodhpur, and even these are
From
to the Jaisalmir border, the country
the city is
hard
but throughout the greater part of the territory the plain undulating or interspersed with shifting sandhills from 20 to over
100
feet
wind,
high,
suggest
whose the
slopes, lightly furrowed
ribbed
appearance of
from the action of the
the
sea-shore.
Generally
