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BIJNI which each landholder was bound when called on to provide a certain quota of men and horses. In 1902 this tenure was commuted to a cash tribute. The currency until 1897, when the British rupee was made legal tender, consisted of various local coinages, including the Ratan shahi rupees struck by Maharaja Ratan Singh at Bijawar. The army consists of a body-guard of 132 men, and the State owns 7 serviceable guns. The police force was organized in 1897, and num bers 92 regular and 268 rural police. A jail is maintained at Bijawar, besides a school with 142 pupils, and a hospital. Bijawar Town.-Chief town of the State of the same name in Central India, situated in 24° 39' N. and 79° 3o' E., 1,2oo feet above sea-level, close to a spur of the Parma range, 12 miles by metalled road from Mahatgawan on the Chhatarpur-Saugor high road and 43 miles thence from the Harpalpur station of the Jhansi-Manikpur branch of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. Population (1go1), 5,220. It was founded by Bijai Singh, a Gond chief in the seventeenth century, and was acquired by Chhatarsal of Parma in the next century. The town contains a jail, a school, a dispensary, and a guesthouse. Bijna.-A petty sanad State in Central India, under the Bundel- khand Agency, belonging to the HASxi,-BHAIYA JAGIRS, with an area of about 27 square miles. It is bounded on all sides, except on the east where it touches the Dhurwai estate, by portions of the Jhansi District of the United Provinces. Population (1901), 1,578. The jagirdar is a Bundela Rdjput of the Orchha house. I)iwdn Sanwant Singh, second son of Diwan Rai Singh of Bardgaon, obtained Bijnd about 16go. After the death of Sdnwant Singh the holding was sub- divided among his three sons, one share being subsequently. reabsorbed into the parent estate. On the establishment of British supremacy, a sanad was granted to Diwan Sujan Singh in 1823, confirming him in possession of his territory. The present jic,Irddr is Diwan Mukund Singh, who succeeded his father Durjan Singh in 185o. It is interesting to note that this small estate has given four Maharajas to Orchhd, Bharti Chand, Vikramajit, Tej Singh, and Sujan Singh having been adopted from this branch of the family. Number of villages, 4 ; cultivated area, 4 square miles; revenue, Rs. 1o,ooo. Bijna, the chief town, is situated in 25° 27' N. and 79° o' E., 14 miles off the high road from Jhansi to Nowgong. Population (1901), 1,092. Bijnaur.-District, tahsil, and town in the United Provinces. See BIJNOR. Bijni.--Estate in Goalpara District, Eastern Bengal and Assam, lying between 25° 53' and 26° 32' N. and go' 85' and 9r° 85' E., in posses- sion of the Bijni family, descended from the Koch king, Nar Ndrdyan, who reigned over Kamarupa from 1534 to 1584. Nar Narayan's armies were victorious from Gargaon and Manipur in the east to Jaintia