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INDEX

Asia, High, Arab routes over, 17
Assam, 3, 6, 114, 115, 120, 142,
146, 170, 230, 235, 3255 coalfields
 in, 326 ; drainage of, 119;
goldfields of, 339 ; hills of, 8
Assensole, 306
Assyria, 17
Assyrians, the, 26
Astola, Island of, 45
“Ata,” 256
Attok, 137; bridge, 295
Aurungzebe, the Emperor, 212,
341
Australia, 319
Ava, 180, 181
Ayodhya, 201
Azad Khan, 51

Baroghél Pass, 69
Bartholomew’s Physical Atlas, 361
Bashgold Kaffirs, 99; River, 69,
70; Valley, 104
Basra, 17
Bassein, 181; Channel, 181
Beds River, 14, 136
Behar, 148
Belgaum, 312
Bellew, Dr. H. W,, 52, g9, 101,
228
Benares, 15, 147, 298, 301 ; brass
work, 277
Bengal, 6, 21, 142, 147, 148, 225,
229, 231, 232; Bay of, 2, 5, 6,
25, 119; coalfields of, 326;
scenery of, 149
Bengalis, the, 223, 225
‘ Ben-i-Israel,” g6
Berar, 245
Beypur, 164, 165
Bhdgirathi, 119, 150
3hakkur, 291
3hamo, 177, 178, 339
Yhdrata tribe, 2
*hawalpur, 139
3hawdni River, 162
3hils, the, 202, 219, 268
3hilu, 182
3hima River, 161
Bhopal, 246, 247
‘ Bhusa,” 257
Bhutén, 25, 120; Duars, 117
Bibi Nani, shrine of, 45
3idar, 22
3ijapur, 22
3ikanir, 139, 246
3ilaspur, 306
3irdwood, Sir George, 274, 275,
276, 279, 280
3irmul Valley, 81
ison Range, 160
3lack Mountain, 295
3lanc, Mont, 122
Bokhara, 80, 89
Bolan, 34; Pass, 36; railway, 4o,
288 ; river, 38, 39, 50
Boldrum, 311
Boledi, the, 52
Bolida Valley, 47
Bolor Mountains, 64
Bombay, 131, 224, 229, 230, 232,
304, 307, 313, 354; area and
statistics of, 309 ; Art Schools of,
275; climate of, 347: Port of,
310

BABAR, 70, 97
Babylon, 17
Back Bay, 309
Bactria, 93
Badagas, the, 216
Badakshan, 56, 61, 93, 94, 99
Badrinath peaks, 119
Bagdad, 17, 20
Bahadur Khel, 330
Bahawalpur, 246, 247
Bajaor, 70, 71, 72, 75, 100, 103
Baktria, 99
Bala Murghab, 62
Balaghat, 162
Balkh, 63, 64
Ball, V,, 333
Balu Chang River, 184
Baluch-Afghan plateau, 42 ; borderland,
 244; frontier, Dravidian
occupation of, 53 ; -Perso Boundary
 Commission, 47
Baluchis, the, 51, 213
Baluchistan, 1, 27, 72, 93, 243, 249,
346; boundaries of, 28, 34, 35;
British, 35, 230; ethnography
of, 52; frontier, hydrography of,
38; general configuration of, 54 ;
independent, 35, 251 ; irrigation
in, 261 ; statistics of, 24
Bamidn, 65 ; Valley, 86
Band-i-Bardn range, 86
Band-i-Turkestan Mountains, 60
Bangalore, 162, 166, 227, 311
Bannu, 76, 79
Bara Valley, 259
Baramulla, 108
Barley, 256
Baroda, 246, 247, 248