— BJ.VA GAAfAFALLI—BANAS.
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of local disorder, the estate was
administered by the Collector of
Cuddapah from 1825 to 1848. In the latter year it was restored, the Governor of Madras renewing the previous grants, and conferring larger civil and criminal powers upon the chief, who now holds the title of Xawab, bestowed upon him in 1876, on the occasion of the visit of the Prince of Al'ales to the Madras Presidency. The rule of primogeniture is
and
followed,
succeeds.
of male issue the nearest relation
the absence
in
Transit duties are not levied in the State.
Banaganapalli. (Kurnool)
— Chief
town
Madras
District,
in the
Madras, and 90 from Bellary. population
Xawab’s
2822.
(1881)
Banaganapalli estate, Karmil
Presidency; 15°
Lat.
250
situated 15'
n.,
from
miles 78°
long.
As the head-quarters of the
20'
estate,
e.
the
and treasury are situated here. The town lies mouth of a gorge, a stream from the hills flowing streets. About half a mile distant are the diamond mines, They a deposit of breccia underlying compact limestone.
courts,
jail,
in a plain near the
through
its
situated in
would seem
to
be nearly worked out,
for
though
in the i8th century
they yielded large returns, the best stones found between 1800-1850 at and even these were only exceptional. Since diamond washers have fallen off greatly in number, and those
were valued 1850, the
who continue at the mines procure only a Banas Hope of the Forest ’). A river
—
Aravalli range
(lat.
25°
7' x., long.
bare subsistence. of Rajputana.
Rises in the
73° 35' e.) in Udaipur (Oodeypore),
about 3 miles from the old fortress of Kumalgarh flows south until it meets the Gogunda plateau, when it turns eastward, and cutting through
the outlying ridges of the Aravalli Hills, bursts into the open country.
Here on farther
banks
its
on
it
is
flows
situated the Vaishnava shrine of Irathdevara;
north-east,
across
Mewar
(the
middle country)
Udaipur (Oodeypore) valley and the waters flowing from the south-east slopes and
proper, collecting
hill tracts
the greater part of the drainage of the
of the Aravallis.
It joins
the
Chambal
(lat.
25° 54' x., long.
beyond the north-east extremity of Bundi (Boondee) Chief affluents in Mewar State, after a course of about 300 miles. the Berach and the Kothesri from the Aravallis, and the Dhund from the Jaipur (Jeypore) country. Where the Banas strikes through a small picturesque group of hills at Rajmahal, there is some fine scenery, and but though the bed in the here its waters are very clear and pure upper part of its course is hard and rocky, it abounds in dangerous quicksands lower down. The Rajputana-ilalwa State Railway crosses it at Hami'rgarh in Mewar. Banas. River of Shahabad District, Bengal. At first it is merely as it a spill channel from the Son, which it leaves near Belta village proceeds northwards, it becomes the drainage channel between the Arrah Canal and the Bihiya branch of the Son Canal system. After 76° 50' E.) a
little
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