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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 7, p. 22.

22 BARKHAN and bordering the Punjab, with an area of 1,317 square miles. The population in 1901 was 14,922, an increase of 4,276 on the rough estimate made in 1891. The head-quarters station, which bears the same name as the tahs/l, is about 3,650 feet above sea-level. The number of villages is 114. The land revenue in 1903-4 amounted to Rs. 47,000. The frequent existence of occupancy rights is a special feature of the tenures of the tahsil. In the Leghari-Barkhan circle, one-third of the revenue levied is paid to the Leghari chief ass:,perior proprietor of the soil, and he holds a revenue-free grant up to 1907. Barkhan rugs are well-known, but have recently deteriorated in quality. Barkhera.-The name of four Thakurdts in Central India: two in the BHOPAWAR AGENCY, distinguished as Mota and Chhota, and two in the MALWA AGENCY, known as Deo Dungr and Panth. Barkur.-Village in the Udipi tiluk of South Kanara District, Madras, situated in 13° 29′ N. and 74° 48′ E. The traditional capital of Tuluva, the country of Tulu-speaking people, it was long the local seat of the representatives of the Hoysala Ballalas of Dorasamudra, who were Jains by religion. The local rulers attained practical independence during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the most powerful of them being named Bhutal Pandya (circa A.D. 1250), confounded by some with the Bhutal Pandya to whom is ascribed the Aliya Santana law of inheri- tance peculiar to the west coast, the origin of which is really much earlier. When the Vijayanagar kingdom was founded in 1336, Harihara, its first ruler, stationed a viceroy called the Rayaru here and built a fort, remains of which are still to be seen. On the fall of Vijayanagar the Bednur kings asserted their authority; and in the ensuing struggle the Jains were almost extirpated and Barkur was destroyed. Ruined tanks and Jain shrines and sculptures still abound, but its importance has vanished and not one Jain house remains. Barliyar.-Village in the Coonoor taluk of the Nilgiri District, Madras, situated in 11° 20′ N. and 76° 50′ E., 61 miles from Coonoor, and half-way down the ghdt road from Coonoor to Mettupalaiyam. Population (1901), 2,234. Mr. E. B. Thomas, a former Collector of the District, started a private garden here in i857, which was afterwards taken over by Government. Experiments in tea cultivation and in the growth of medicinal plants, camphor, rubbers, &c., which like a warm, damp climate at a moderate elevation, have been made. The garden, which is the only one of its kind in the Presidency, is in charge of the Curator of the Government Gardens at Ootacamund. Barmanda.-Petty State in MAHI KANTHA, Bombay. Barmer.-Head-quarters of the Mallani district in the State of Jodhpur, Rajputana, situated in 25° 45′ N. and 71° 23′ E., on the Jodhpur-Bikaner Railway. Population (9goI), 6,064. The present town is said to have been founded in the thirteenth century by a