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as compensation. It was remitted altogether in 1 906, in connexion
with arrangements concluded with the Rana for the supply of water
to the Sabathu cantonment.
Baghat. ___ Taluk in Medak District, Hyderabad State, with an area
of 415 square miles. The population in 1901, including jagirs, was
5 7, 0 7 3, compared with 5 2, 819 g in 1891. There are 110 villages, of
which 5 2 are jagir, and Mushirabad (population, 8 1 5 ) is the head-
quarters. The land revenue in 1901 was Rs. 7 5,000. These statistics
include the taluk of Ibrahimpatan, transferred from Mahbubnagar
District in 1905, which had an area of 393 square miles in 1901, with
a population of 46,604. The paigah taluk of Shamsabad lies to the
west, with two villages, a population of 5,446, and an area of about
9 square miles. The name Baghat (' gardens' ) was given to the
original taluk, because most of the 'crown' gardens were included
in it. The taluk is watered by the river Musi and the Husain Sagar
(lake).
Baghelkhand.-A tract adjoining Bundelkhand and forming the
easternmost section of the CENTRAL INDIA AGENCY. It lies roughly
between 22º 40' and 2 5º 0' N. and 80º 30' and 82º 5 7' E., and derives
its name from the Baghela Rajput clan, which has held it during the
last six or seven hundred years.
The tract falls naturally into two divisions, separated by the KAIMUR
range, which strikes across it from south-west to north-east. The section
lying to the west of this range consists, except for a small area in the
south, near the town of Maibar, where the Bandair (Bhander) range
terminates, of a wide elevated plain about 1,1 00 feet above sea-level,
while the eastern portion is a rough hilly tract cut up by a succession
of long parallel ridges belonging to the indhyan system, heavily
clothed in jungle. Through the western section runs the TONS river
with its tributaries, while the SON and its affluents traverse the eastern
section. The geological riches of this region are so varied as almost
completely to epitomize the most important formation to be met with
throughout Peninsular India. It includes, moreover, the type areas of
several important groups, the Rewah, Bandair, Kaimur, Kheinjua, and
Sirbu rocks, which derive their names from localities in this region.
North of the Kaimur range all subdivisions of the Upper Vindhyan
rocks are to be net with, while the Lower Vindhyans are more com-
pletely represented here than elsewhere in India, together with the
curious volcanic ash-beds known as the porcellanites. The hills in the
eastern section of the tract belong mostly to the Bijawar formation,
the underlying gneiss outcropping in the valleys, This region, lying
between the Vindhyan outcrop in the north and the Gondwana in the
south, occupies the site of a once lofty range, the materials for both the
Vindhyan and Gondwana sediments being products of its denudation.
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