BANDAR ULANKA^BANDRA. village
a Buddhist
is
57
which the people resort in large in May. Government middlePolice school, with boarding department.
temple, to
numbers at the time of class Anglo - vernacular
their festival
station.
Bandarulanka.— Village 467 houses.
Bandel. mile above
Contains a
—
Godavari
in
82° 2
District,
Madras Presidency.
Population (1881) 2673, inhabiting Situated on the Kausika branch of the Godavari river. Small village on the bank of the river Hugh', about a
Lat. i6° 35' N., long.
e.
Hugh town, in Bengal. Lat. 22° 55' Roman Catholic monastery, said to be
n., long.
88° 26' e.
the oldest Christian
A
in Bengal. stone over the gatew'ay bears the date 1599, but the original church founded in that year was burnt during the siege of
church
Hugh by
the Mughals in 1632, the images
present building was erected shortly
of the
the intercession of one of the priests,
made
and pictures which it conEmperor of Delhi. The afterwards and the Emperor, on who was taken prisoner to Agra,
command
tained being destroyed by the
a grant of 777 Inghds (about 250 acres) of land rent-free to the In its early days, the Portuguese built a fort opposite it
monastery.
defence
for its
and towards the close of
last
century there were, in
addition to the monastery, a nunnery, a boarding school, and a college
The mixed descendants of the Portuguese and natives sank into a low depth of degradation on the decline of the Portuguese power, and Bandel became proverbial for the immorality of its women. The inhabitants are now pure Bengalis, with the exception of a few of Jesuits.
which during more than a hundred years attached away with the disappearance of the last half-breed remnants of Portuguese rule. At present (1883), the establishment consists of a very small Portuguese mission. At the festival of the Novena, celebrated in November, a large number of Roman Catholics resort to the place. The name Bandel is a corruption of bandar, a priests
and the
taint
to Bandel, passed
’
‘
wharf or
port.
—
Bandipallam
Hill and stream in South Arcot ( Vanndrapaldyam ). Madras Presidency. Lat. 11° 43' 15" n., long. 79° 48' e. A strategical point of importance in the Anglo-French campaigns of 1750 District,
to 1780.
Bandra division of
—
Wdndren Bandora, Vdndra ). Town in the Salsette Sub( Thana District, Bombay Presidency; situated at the southern
extremity of Salsette, with the island of
at
the
point where that
island
is
connected
Bombay by
a causeway and arched stone bridge Lat. 19° 3' 5" N., long. 72° 52' 30" e.
9 miles north of Bombay.
population (1881) 14,987 municipal revenue, ^^1536, or nearly 2s. per head; municipal expenditure, 1459 ; average annual value of trade
at the port of
The town
Bandra
for 5 years
— exports
^2138, imports ^^7505.
has a post-office and a dispensary, and
is
a station on the
