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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 15, p. 239.

KHANDGIRI 239 TALODA, SHAHADA, PRAKASHA, NANDURBAR, FAIZPUR, and RAVER. The total receipts of these average nearly 3 lakhs. The District board and 17 tdluka boards had an income in 1903-4 of 44 lakhs. The principal source of income is the land cess. The expenditure amounted to 44 lakhs, including nearly 2 lakhs devoted to the main- tenance and construction of roads and buildings. The District Superintendent of police is aided by three Assistant Superintendents, one probationary Assistant Superintendent, and four inspectors. There are altogether 37 police stations. The force in 1904 numbered 1,636: namely, 23 chief constables, 335 head constables, and 1,278 constables. The mounted police number 62 under 8 dafa- dars. In addition to the District jail at Dhtilia, with accommodation for 450 prisoners, there are 23 subsidiary jails and 21 lock-ups which can accommodate 408 and 202 prisoners respectively. The daily average number of prisoners in 1904 was 493, of whom 16 were females. Khândesh stands twelfth as regards literacy among the twenty-four Districts of the Presidency. The Census of 1go1 returned 4-8 per cent. of the population (9-3 males and o-2 females) as able to read and write. Education has made great progress of late years. In 1881 there were only 317 schools, attended by 18,656 pupils. The number of pupils rose to 29,346 in 1891 and to 30,293 in 1901. In 1903-4 the schools num- bered 538 (including 122 private schools with 1,713 pupils), attended by 22,18r pupils, of whom 845 were girls. One is a high school, 12 are middle schools, 401 primary, one is a training school, and one an indus- trial school. Three are maintained by Government, 332 by local boards, 7o by municipalities, and r i are aided. The training school and the industrial school are at Dhfilia. The expenditure on education in 1903-4 was 2â lakhs, of which Local funds contributed Rs. 93,000 and RS. 24,000 was recovered as fees. Of the total, nearly 8o per cent. was devoted to primary schools. The District contains twenty dispensaries, one hospital, and two other medical institutions, accommodating 167 in-patients. In these institu- tions 114,213 persons, including 1,229 in-patients, were treated in 1904, and 3,797 operations performed. The total expenditure was over Rs. 39,000, Of which Rs. 16,940 was contributed by Local and muni- cipal funds. The number of persons successfully vaccinated in 1903-4 was 39,ooo, representing a proportion Of 27 per 1,ooo of population, which exceeds the average for the Presidency. [Sir J. M. Campbell, Bombay Gazetteer, vol. xii (1880) ; A. F. David- son, Settlement Report (1854).] Khandgiri.-Hill in the Khurdâ subdivision of Puri District, Ben- gal, situated in 20° 16′ N. and 85° 47′ E., about 4 miles west of Bhubaneswar. It consists of two separate peaks, the northern one of