BERHAMPORE', the name of two towns' in British India.-1. B., in the presidency of Madras, Is a military station In the district of Ganjam. It is in n. lat. 19° 20', and e. long. 84 50', being 525 m. to the n.e. of Madras, and 325 to the s.w. of Calcutta. The cantonments, themselves on a rocky ledge, have to the s. and e. a plain of consid erable extent, on the nearer edge of which is the native town, with a pop. of (1871) 21,670.-2. B. or Burlitunpore, in the presidency of Bengal, is in the district of Moor shedabad, being on the left bank of the Bhagirathi or Bhagruttee, which, itself the first great offset of the Ganges, afterwards joins another great offset, the Jellinghee, to form the Hoogly. B. is in n. lat. 24' 5', and e. long. 88' 17', being distant from Calcutta by land and water respectively 118 and 161 miles. It has long been one of the principal mil itary stations in British India. The grand square, inclosing a spacious parade-ground, is particularly striking; and the quarters of the European otlicers form handsome ranges of brick-built and stuccoed edifices. There are here a college, hospitals, and mission
churches. B. is the seat also of a civil establishment; and the houses of its chief mem bers, erected in convenient spots in the neighborhood, give the place an air or grandeur and importance. B., though at one time extremely unhealthy, from its low and moist site on the delta of the Ganges, has yet been so much improved by sanitary measures, as to be second to no spot of Bengal in salubrity. In the spring of 1857 13. acquired an unenviable celebrity as being the cradle of the disaffection which so speedily led to the massacre of Meerut. Pop. '71, 27,110.
13E'RI, a t. of India, in the British district of Rohtuek, Punjab, in a. lit. 28° 40', c. long. 76' 40', 36 m. w. by n. from Delhi Pop. '68, 97,23.