Bardwan'

Bardwan', or BURDWAN (but correctly Vardhamāna), a city of Bengal, on the East Indian Railway, 67 miles from Calcutta. In point of architecture, it is a miserable place—an aggregate, as it were, of 73 villages. It contains a palace of the Maharajahs, and a large collection of temples. Pop. (1891) 34,477.—The district of which the above city is the administrative headquarters, has an area of 2697 sq. m., and a population of 1,391,880 inhabitants. It exports silk, rice, tobacco, jute, also iron and coal—the latter chiefly brought from the mines of Raniganj. Since the opening of the East Indian Railway, many small villages have been transformed into thriving centres of trade. The division of Bardwan has an area of 13,855 sq. m., and a population of over seven and a half millions.