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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 9, p. 87.

I3ONDI TOWN 87 do duty at the capital and the remainder are distributed over 13 thdnas in the rest of the State. The Central jail has accommodation for 149 prisoners, and there are small lock-ups at the head-quarters of each tahsil. In respect of the literacy of its population Bundi stands fifteenth among the twenty States and chiefships of Rajputana, with 2.5 per cent. (4-7 males and o-1 females) able to read and write. Only two educa- tional institutions are maintained by the State: namely, a high school at the capital, and a small vernacular school at Naenwa, which are attended by zoo boys, of whom 6o study English. There are said to be about 12 indigenous schools under private management. The total State expenditure on education is about Rs. 3,000 a year. There is but one hospital, at the capital; it is maintained by the Darbar at a cost varying from Rs. r,8oo to Rs. 2,5oo a year. Vaccination is nowhere compulsory, and is everywhere backward. A staff of two vaccinators is kept up, which in 1904=5 successfully vaccinated only 561 persons, or about 3 per 1,ooo of the population, while the average number vaccinated in each of the previous five years was but 164. [IRdjputdna Gazetteer, vol. i (1879, under revision).] Bundi Town.-Capital of the State of the same name in Rajput- ana, situated in 25° 27" N. and 75° 39' E., about loo miles south-east of Ajmer city. It is said to he named after a Mina chieftain called Bunda, from whose grandson it was taken by Rao Dewa about 1342. Population (1901), 19,313. The town possesses a combined post and telegraph office, a jail, a high school attended by 160 boys, and a hospital with accommodation for 1r in-patients, in which 9,362 cases were treated in 1904 and 343 operations were performed. Bundi is one of the most picturesque towns in Rajputana. It is situated in a gorge nearly surrounded by wooded hills, and is entirely enclosed within walled fortifications through which ingress and egress are obtained by means of four gateways: namely, the Bhairon Gate on the west, the Chaogan Gate on the south, the Paton Pot on the east, and the Shukl Baori Gate on the north. The streets and houses rise and fall with the unevenness of the ground, and some of the suburbs have crept upwards on both of the northern slopes. The principal bazar, nearly 50 feet in width, runs throughout the whole length of the town, but the other streets are narrow and very irregular. The palace, rising up above the town in pinnacled terraces on the slope of a hill having an elevation of over 1,400 feet above sea-level, is a striking feature of the place. Tod writes that, throughout Rajputana, which boasts many fine palaces, that of Bundi I is allowed to possess the first rank, for which it is indebted to situation not less than to the splendid additions which it has continually received for it is an aggregate of palaces, each having the name of its founder,