—
BANDA— BAND ARBAN.
56
and 229 returned as
Five square miles are reserved under
cultivable.
the Forest Department.
Population (1881) 82,333, namely, males The adult 42,883, and females 39,450; number of villages, 273. agricultural population numbers 32,561, or 39‘5S per cent, of the population of the tahsil
total
average area of cultivated and cultivable
Total amount of Government
8 acres per adult agriculturist.
land,
land revenue, ^^4865 ; total revenue, including cesses, ;^52io, or an average of io|^d. per cultivated acre; rental paid by cultivators, in-
cluding cesses, ^^14,307, or an average of 2s. 2|d. per cultivated acre. In 1883, the tahsil contained i civil and i criminal court, with 2 police stations
and 8 outposts.
watchmen Bdnda.
Strength of regular police, 79
men;
of village
{chaakiddrs), 203.
—
Small town in Sagar (Saugor) District, Central Provinces, and unimportant, except as being the head-quarters of Banda tahsil, situated about 20 miles north-east of Sagar town, on the main road to Cawnpur. Population (1881) 1313; houses, 336. Police station and village school.
Bandajan.
— Pass
Muzafarabad Division of Kashmir
in
State,
Punjab,
over a range of the Himalayas, covered with an unbroken sheet of perpetual snow. Lat. (summit) 31° 22' n., long. 78° 4' e elevation above .
the sea, 14,854
Bandamurlanka. — Hamlet
patnam
82°
long.
Godavari
in 1'
E.
Narsdpur, on
One
A
feet.
District,
attached to the town of KumarigiriMadras Presidency. Lat. 16° 25' n.,
population (1881) 4380. Situated 18 miles east of Vainateyam, or western mouth of the Godavari.
the
of the three earliest English settlements in the delta of that
factory
established
here early in
afterwards abandoned.
Bandar -Vrea,
(Batidwar).
It is still
— Taluk
702 square miles.
population (1881)
a small seaport.
in
in
Land revenue, ;^3 1,000.
Kistna
river.
shortly
See B.and.^rulanka.
Houses, 30,779
175,482, thus classified according to sex
Town Bandar. Masulipatam. Bandarban.
century was
Kistna District, Madras Presidency.
88,279; females, 87,203; distributed Chief town, Masulipatam, or Bandar.
—
i8th
the
in
District,
2
towns and 188
Madras
— males, villages.
Presidency.
— See
— Principal village of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bengal,
and the residence of the Poang Raja (the Bohmong), situated on the Sangu river. Lat. 22° 12' 30" N., long. 92° 16' 30" E. piopulation about There is a permanent market here, at which considerable traffic 3000.
is
carried on.
hewn
The
hillmen bring
down
for sale timber (either
rough
bamboos, rattans, thatching-grass, sesamum, mustard, india-rubber, and occasionally small quantities, of ivory and wax. They buy rice, salt, spices, dried fish, tobacco, cattle, piece-goods, trinkets, etc. The most interesting building in the or
into
boats), cotton,
