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population are the Brahmans and Lingayats. The Lingayats are, as
a rule, traders, who almost monopolize the export of cotton, timber, and
grain. Some of the Musahnans are also wealthy merchants. A few
Parsis and Marwaris, who have recently settled in the town, deal chiefly
in European goods. The principal articles of export are cotton and
rice ; the imports comprise English piece-goods, chillies, coco-nuts,
molasses, dates, betel-nuts, groceries, indigo, lead, zinc, and wrought
and.unwrought copper and brass. There are no manufacturing indus-
tries of any importance ; but in the jail, carpets, table-linen, cloths, and
cane articles, all of superior quality, are made by the prisoners. The
municipality was established in 1856. During the decade ending
1901 the incorne averaged Rs. 46,ooo. In 1903-4 the income was
Rs. 56,ooo, derived chiefly from octroi (Rs. 17,000), tax on houses and
lands (Rs. 13,ooo), and market-fees. The water-supply is drawn from
two reservoirs. There are also several wells in the town, but with one
or two exceptions they are not used for drinking purposes, the water
being brackish. The native quarter was formerly unhealthy ; but since
the introduction of the Municipal Act, some attention has been paid
to drainage and sanitary requirements. Dharwar contains as schools,
including 3 high schools, one supported by Government, one belonging
to the Basel Mission, and one unaided. A training college for masters
and a school for mistresses have 136 and 14 pupils respectively. The
Government high school has a music-class attached to it, and the male
training college contains a workshop. There is also a school for
European and Eurasian girls and another for boys. The total number
of girls' schools is 8, with an attendance of 611 pupils. Besides the
chief revenue and judicial offices, the town contains the head office of
the Southern Mahratta Railway Company, a Subordinate judge's court, a
civil hospital, a railway dispensary, and a lunatic asylum with 78 inmates.
Dhasan (Dashdrna ; possibly the Dasaron of Ptolemy).--A river of
Northern India. It rises in Bhopal State (23° 32′ N., 78° 30′ E.)
among the Vindhyas, and after crossing Saugor District in the Central
Provinces for about 6o miles, first touches the United Provinces in the
extreme south of the Lalitpur tahsil of Jhansi District, which it divides
from Saugor for about 30 miles. It then crosses several of the Bundel-
khand States, and finally forms the boundary between Jhansi and
Hamirpur for nearly 70 miles, till its junction with the BETwX at
Chandwari on the border of Jalaun District. The bed of the Dhasan
is rocky in Saugor and Lalitpur, and at intervals after it first enters
Jhansi and Hamirpur, but is then generally sandy, with nullahs and
ravines running into it. Except during the rains it. is easily fordable.
A scheme has been sanctioned for the provision of irrigation in the
west of Hamirpur by damming this river and forming a reservoir.
Dhauli.-Hill in the Khurda subdivision of Puri District, Bengal,
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