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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 5, p. 387.

.ANUPSPAHRHtR TOWN 387 to Gyanima, and to the mart of Gartok in Tibet, which has recently been declared open. The pass is, however, difficult for travellers. It traverses three ridges of a range at right angles to the dividing ridge between Tibet and British territory at a height of I7,300 to 17,600 feet, and snow lies on the pass for eleven months of the year. Antarvedi.-Ancient name of a tract of country in the United Provinces. See )oAB. Antir.-Ancient fort in the Kannad tiluk of Aurangabad District, ·Hyderabad State, situated in 20° 27' N. and 75° i5/ E.. on the summit of a spur of the hills extending into Khandesh. It was built in the fifteenth century by a Maratha chief, and fell to the Ahmadnagar kingdom, but was annexed by Aurangzeb, who denuded it of its artillery towards the close of the seventeenth century. Two miles south of the fort is a square pillar, bearing a Persian inscription stating that it was erected in 1588, during the reign of Murtaza Nizam Shah of Ahmadnagar. Anipgarh.-Head-quarters of a subdivision of the same name in the Suratgarh nizamat of the State of Bikaner, Rajputana, situated in 29° 12' N. and 73° i2t E., about 82 miles almost due north of Bikaner city, and a little to the south of the dry bed of the Ghaggar. Popula- tion (I901), I,05. The place is remarkable only for its fort, which was built about I678 and named after Anup Singh, then chief of Bikaner. The subdivision contains 75 villages and 7,497 inhabitants, of whom more than 51 per cent. are Raths. There is very little cultivation and water is often scarce; but the grazing is good, and sajji and ldnd plants, from which soda is manufactured, grow in abundance. Anfipshahr Tahsil.-Eastern tahsil of Bulandshahr District, United Provinces, comprising the parganas of Anfpshahr, Ahar, and Dibai, and lying along the Ganges, between 28° 5' and 28° 37' N. and 770 28' and 780 28' E., with an area of 444 square miles. The popula- tion rose from 222,481 in i891 to 278,152 in I90I. There are 378 villages and four towns, the largest of which are JAHANGIRABAD (population, II,572), DIBAI (10,579), and ANIUPSHAHR (8,601), the tahsil head-quarters. The demand for land revenue in 1903-4 was Rs. 4,99,000, and for cesses Rs. 80,ooo. The tahsil is divided into two parts, from north to south, by the Chhoiya river. The land to the east is naturally inferior to that on the west of the river, but has been immensely improved by irrigation from the Anupshahr branch of the Upper Ganges Canal. The channel of the Chhoiya was very badly defined, but has been straightened and deepened by the Irrigation department. In 1903-4 the area under cultivation was 339 square miles, of which I58 were irrigated, wells supplying more than half. Anupshahr Town.-Head-quarters of the tahsil of the same name in Bulandshahr District, United Provinces, situated in 28° 21' N. and C 2