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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 8, p. 146.

146 BHOPAWAR AGENCY mans, 29,895, or 5 per cent.; and Jains, 9,721. The density is 75 persons per square mile. The Agency contains three towns, DHAR (population, 17,792), BARWANI (6,277), and KUKSHI (5,402) ; and 3,o3r villages. The charge was originally divided into two sections, known as the Bhil and Deputy Bhil Agencies, with head-quarters at Bhopawar and Manpur respectively. In 1857, after the Political officer's residence at Bhopawar was destroyed by the mutineers, the head-quarters were removed to Sardarpur, when the officer commanding the Bhil Corps was entrusted with the political control of the Agency. The civil work later on proved too heavy, and a separate Political officer was con sidered necessary. In 1882, therefore, the Bhil and Deputy Bhil Agencies were amalgamated, and a regular Agency was constituted with head-quarters at Sardarpur. Following the creation, in 1899, of the Indore Residency, all but three of the Indore State parganas, formerly included in this charge, were transferred to the Resident in 1904. In 1901 the Bagaud pargana of Dewas, made over to the British Government for administrative purposes in 1828, was trans- ferred to the Indore Agency. The charge now comprises the treaty State of DHnR; the mediatized States of JHABUA, BARWANI, ALF- RAJPUR, and JOBAT; eighteen guaranteed thakurdts and bhumidts, the latter holding chiefly from the Dhar State ; the three Indore parganas of Chikalda, Lawani (see NIMAR ZILA), and Petlawad (see INDORE ZILA); the Gwalior district of AMJHERA; and the British district of MANPUR. None of the guaranteed estates receives any allowance from, or pays any tribute to, the British Government. The Political Agent exercises the powers of a District Magistrate and a Court of Sessions within the limits of his charge, except in States where such powers are exercised by the chiefs, and also on that portion of the Godhra-Ratlam branch of the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway which passes through the Jhabua State east of the Mahi river. The Agra-Bombay and Mhow-Nimach high roads and the Ratlam- Godhra branch of the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway traverse the charge. The Agency comprises the States, portions of States, and estates shown on the opposite.page. Bhor State.-State in the Poona Political Agency, Bombay, lying between 18° and 18° 45' N. and 73° 14' and 73° 15' E., with an area of 925 square miles. From the Mahadeo Hills in Satara District Bhor stretches north-west over the Western Gllats in the south-west of Poona and east of Kolaba, with a breadth varying from 35 miles in the south to 15 miles in the north. Above the Western Ghats, the Mutha flows in the north and the Nira in the south, and below