BANGA—BANGALI.
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Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway. Since the opening of become a favourite place of resort for the citizens of Bombay. Banga. Town and municipality in Nawashahr tahs'tl, Jalandhar (Jullundur) District, Punjab; 22 miles east of Jullundur (Jalandhar) railway communication, Bandra has
—
town.
and
31° ii' 15"
Lat.
made upas
N., long.
— Hindus,
76° 2
Population (1881) 4565,
E.
2767 Muhammadans, 763 Sikhs, 945 Occupied houses, 761. The town forms a local com-
follows
Jains, 90.
mercial centre,
a large trade in sugar, wheat, and country produce,
witl:
manufacture of cotton cloth, and of brass and copper vessels. A wellbuilt and paved town, with a dispensary. Government middle school,
and police station. Municipal income (1880-81) £226. Bangahal. Valley in Kangra District, Punjab, forming the between Kangra Proper and the outlying dependency of Kullu. post-office,
e.xpenditure,
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link Lat.
32° 18' to 32° 29' N., long. 76° 49' to 76° 55'
mountain
The
Consists of two E. one another by the Dhaola Dhar range. known as Bara Bangahal, contains the head-waters
glens, divided from
northern
half,
of the Ravi, which issues already a considerable river into the Native State of
but
The
Chamba.
area of Bara Bangahal
is
290 square miles
contains only one village, situated at the lowest point of the
it
valley,
some 8500
Some
feet
above the
sea,
and inhabited by a few Kanet
number of houses in the village were swept away by an avalanche. The mountains slope steeply up from families.
years ago, a
the banks of the river, and rise into peaks of from 17,000 to over 20,000 feet,
covered with glaciers and perpetual snow.
the ravines there
is
Near the bottom of
a good deal of pine forest, and higher up, long bare
on the melting of the snows, afford splendid grazing for and goats. The southern half, known as Chhota again divided into two parts by a branch range 10,000
slopes, which,
large flocks of sheep
Bangahal,
is
feet in height
its
eastern fork contains the head-waters of the
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by Kanets and Daghis. The western glen, known as the Bfr Bangahal, does not differ in any material respect from the general aspect of the Kangra river,
and some eighteen small scattered
villages, inhabited
District.
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Bangali. River of North Bengal rises in Rangpur, flows thence through a marshy tract which it drains by means of deep khdls, or water-channels,
into
Bogra
In
District.
receiving the waters of the Manas,
it
falls
the into
latter
District,
after
the Halhalia river,
which ultimately joins the Phuljhur. The great marshes which cover the entire tract through which the river runs, empty themselves into it
by means of deep
k/idls or
drainage channels.
is
e.xtended
all
In
this
way, in the
becomes the main artery by which boat traffic over the east of Bogra District and on its banks, or on
rainy season, the Bangali
