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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 9, p. 46.

46 B UDHANA TAIHSII Budhana Tahsil.-South-western tahsil of Muzaffarnagar District, United Provinces, lying between 29° 12' and 29° 26' N. and 77° 9' and 77' 42' E., with an area of 287 square miles. The population increased from 172,688 in 18gr to 197,034 in igoi. There are two towns with a population exceeding 5,ooo-KANDHLA (11,573), and BUDHnNA (6,664), the tahsil head-quarters; and 149 villages. In 1903-4 the demand for land revenue was Rs. 4,09,ooo, and for cesses Rs. 50,000. The tahsil is the most thickly populated in the District, supporting 686 persons per square mile, as compared with a District average of 527 ; it is also the most closely cultivated. The Eastern Jumna Canal and the Deoband branch of the Upper Ganges Canal provide irrigation. In 1903-4 the area under cultivation was 235 square miles, of which 104 were irrigated. Budhana Town.-Head-quarters of the tahsil of the same name in Muzaffarnagar District, United Provinces, situated in 29° 17' N. and 77' 29' E., i9 miles south-west of Muzaffarnagar town. Population (igoi), 6,664. During the Mutiny the place was held by the rebels, but was retaken in September, 1857. It lies close to the Hindan, but the main site is raised, and is fairly healthy. The town is administered under Act XX of 1856, with an income of Rs. r,ooo. Besides the tahsili, it contains three schools and a dispensary. Budihal.-Village in the Hosdurga tdluk of Chitaldroog District, Mysore, situated in 13° 37' N. and 76° 25 E., 16 miles south-east of Hosdurga town. Population (igoi), i,i18. The fort was built here about the fifteenth century by a chief who was invested with authority by the king of Vijayanagar. After the fall of that power, the Tarikere chiefs seized the place, but it was taken from them by the Sultan of Bijapur, and subsequently formed a district of the province of Sira under the Mughals. The pole,-jr of Chitaldroog and the Marathas in turn held it, until it was taken by Haidar Ali in 1761. The Marathas again seized it in 1771, but it was recovered in 1774. In 1790 it was once more in the hands of the Marathas, but was restored at the peace of 1792. It was one of the last places at which the insurgents under the Tarikere joligdr created disturbances in x831. Budikote.-Village in the Bowringpet tdluk of Kolar District, Mysore, situated in 12° 54' N. and 78° 8' E., 8 miles south-west of Bowringpet. Population (igoi), 1,460. There is a Bana inscription of the ninth century. Bfidikote was the birthplace of Haidar Ali, and formed the jdgir of his father Fateh Muhammad on his appointment as Faujdar of Kolar under the Subahdar of Sira. Bugti Country.-Tribal area in Baluchistan. See MARRi-BUGT1 COUNTRY. Bukkur (Bakhar).-Fortified island in the river Indus, in Sukkur District, Sind, Bombay, situated in 27° 43' N. and 68° 56' E., between