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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 13, p. 53.

HARIANA 53 of the pool has been paved, and the current of the. Ganges directed so as to secure a constant strong flow of water, while an iron railing has been erected to prevent bathers from being carried away. Another sacred pool, called Bhimgoda, has been enlarged and paved, and water is now supplied from the Ganges. The society also furnished part of the funds required to bridge a torrent-bed lying between the station and the town. Plague broke out in 1897, but was quickly suppressed. A few more cases took place in 1898, and the measures adopted to prevent the spread led to a riot. The numbers at the fair have decreased considerably since plague appeared. The total at any one time is also affected by the fact that pilgrims now visit Hardwar throughout the year, instead of only on the fixed days. On the great bathing day at the Kumbh meld of 1903 about 400,000 persons were present. Cholera, however, broke out; and although the cases at Hardwdr were few, the disease was carried by the pilgrims into the hill tracts leading to the Himalayan shrines. In early days riots and bloody fights were of common occurrence amid the excited throng. In 1760, on the great bathing day, the rival mobs of gosains and Lairigis had a long battle, in which 1,8oo are said to have perished. In 1795 the Sikh pilgrims slew 500 of the gosains. Timfir plundered and massacred a great concourse of pilgrims here shortly after seizing Delhi in 1398. In 1894 it was anticipated that the flood caused by the GoHNn LAKE would damage the town and head-works of the canal ; but the river rose only 12 feet, and the damage was not excessive. The trade of the town is confined to supplying the wants of the pilgrims and to the through traffic with Debra. Branches of the American Methodist Mission are maintained at Jwdldpur and Kankhal. The Hardwdr Union municipality was constituted in 1868, and includes the two villages of Mayapur and Kankhal. The income and expenditure from 1892 to 1901 averaged about Rs. 43,000. In 1903-4 the income was Iks. 91,ooo, of which Rs. 31,000 was derived from octroi, Rs. 20,000 from a loan, and Rs. 33,000 from the pilgrim tax. The expenditure was 1-2 lakhs; chiefly on the fair, Rs. 84,000. Hareshwar.-Village in Janjira State, Bombay. See DEVGARH. Haridna.--A tract of country in the Punjab, lying between 28° 30′ and 30° N. and 75° 45′ and 76° 30′ E., chiefly in the eastern half of Hissar District, but also comprising part of Rohtak District and of the States of Jind and Patiala. It is in shape an irregular oval, with its long axis lying north-west and south-east. On the north-west it is bounded by the Ghaggar valley; on the west, south-west, and south by the Bagar and Dhundauti, or sandy tracts which are the continuation of the Bikaner desert ; on the east by the Jumna riverain ; and on the north- east by the Nardak country, from which it is divided by a line roughly coinciding with the alignment of the Southern Punjab Railway. The