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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 21, p. 82.

Rf1JPIPLA offences, without the permission of the Political Agent, any person except British subjects. The income of the State in 1903-4 was 8•7 lakhs, including receipts from land, forests, and excise. More than Rs. 70,000 is annually spent on public works. The forms of assess- ment levied are the hoe (koddli), or the billhook (ddtardi) cess (vary- ing from 8 annas to 2 rupees); a plough tax (hdlbandi), levied on each plough (varying according to the status of the cultivator from Rs. 5 to Rs. r9) ; and bighotis, or acre rates (ranging from 4ā annas to Rs. 25). Of the total area, 437 square miles have been surveyed. There is a municipality at Nāndod under State management. The chief main tains a military force of 111 men, horse and foot, and 239 police. The State contained in 1903-4 one high school and 81 primary schools, of which 5 were for girls. The boys' schools were attended by 3,417 pupils and the girls' schools by 607. One hospital and five dispen- saries and the Nāndod jail infirmary cost Rs. 16,o6o, and treated 38,1oo patients in 1903-4. In the same year 3,280 persons were vaccinated. Nāndod contains a veterinary hospital. Rājpur State.-Petty State in Kt1TH1twt1R, Bombay. Rājpur Town (r).-Town in the head-quarters subdivision of the District of the Twenty-four Parganas, Bengal, situated in 22° 26' N. and 88° 25' E., r 1 miles south of Calcutta. Population (1901), 10,713. Rājpur was constituted a municipality in 1876. The income during the decade ending 1901-2 averaged Rs. 8,4oo, and the expenditure Rs. 8,2oo. In 1903-4. the income was Rs. ro,ooo, half of which was derived from a tax on persons (or property tax) ; and the expenditure was Rs. 12,000. Rājpur Town (2).-Town in Dehra Dūn District, United Provinces, situated in 30° 24' N. and 78' 6' E., at the foot of the Himalayas on the main road to Mussoorie, 7 miles from that place and 7 miles from Debra. Population (1901), 2,9oo. The place is chiefly of im- portance as a stage on the journey to Mussoorie, and it is administered under Act XX of 1856. Pure drinking-water is supplied through pipes from the mountains. There are three hotels, a police station, a post office, and a dispensary. In 1902 a small glass factory was opened here. Glass is made from quartz, limestone, and soda, the two first materials being found in the neighbourhood. Four European work- men and forty-four natives were employed in 1903. Rājpura.-Head-quarters tahsil of the Pinjaur nizdmat, Patiala State, Punjab, lying between 30 22' and 30° 36' N. and 760 33' and 76° 49' E., with an area of 141 square miles. The population in 19or was 55,117, compared with 59,607 in 1891. The tahsil contains 146 villages, of which Rājpura is the head-quarters. The land revenue and cesses in 1903-4 amounted to 1•9 lakhs. Rajputāna (` the country of the Rajputs' ; also called Rajasthān or