Bajal, of Bengal, a rice crop sown in Trlay or June, and reaped in October.
Balla or Bullah, of Coitubatore, a dry land measure= 166,464 square feet, or 3'83 acres.
Balsundar or Balthaar, of Bengal, sandy soil.
Ban, of Surat and Broach, land covered by salt water at sluing tides, a salt-water marsh.
Band or Bandh, in Urdu, a dam, an earthen embank ment. Bandara is a masonry dam.
Bangar, in Bengal, a variety of soils, high grounds, uplands, stiff clay irretentive of moisture. In Gorakhpur, hangar is a silicious soil, and bhat a calcareous soil.
L'anjar, waste land, fallow land. Adi banjar, immemo rial waste land, Banjar jadid, recently waste, Banjar kadim, cult urable land long lef t uncultivated.
Bankar, a red soil of Bundelkhand, a mixture of sand and clay, and yields 191 lbs. of cotton per acre, two-sevenths being the proportion of cleaned cotton.
Bar ; high and somewhat sandy tracts in the centres of doabs, and equidistant from river influence on both sides, are almost universally called bar.
L'arad or Burrud, of the Dekban, stony and sandy inferior land. Lal-barad is red gravelly soil ; pila barad, yellow soil ; mal-barad, stony soil.
Barani, of Sind, unirrigated lands cultivated by the natural rains. In Mysore, lands sown at the beginning of the rain,y season, 27th April to 2d May, when various graft-is are sown.
Barar, of Bengal, alluvium.
Barattu, of Bombay, unculturable land.
Bard or Bardi, of Berar and Central Provinces, stony soil near hills, a light sandy soil.
Barike, of Coorg, low swampy bind adjacent to or below the rice fields.
Basrnati, of N. India, the best kind of rice, meaning, odorous. There are about 200 varieties of rice. Bat, of Bengal, fallow land.
Belo, of Sind, forest.
Bona, of Bombay, grass land on the borders of cultivated land.
Besur or Beysur, of Bombay, a good, productive soil, with the gorat and kali qualities, but is inferior to pure gorat.
Bett, Betta, Boru, Belt, or Bhat, of Bombay, high-lying land imperfectly irrigated, yielding but one crop a year, and of inferior grain.
Bhadai or Bhadui, of Bengal, rainy weather rice crop, sown about Bysakh, and cut in Bhadai (August— September), autumn crops.
Bhaiyachara, of Oudh and N.W. Provinces, a copar cenary estate held in severalty.
13hal, of the Indus delta, a kind of rice cultivation. Bhar is sand of a white or greyish-white colour.
Bhata soil, to the north of the Ganges, which retains its humidity for a long time, and contains a large quantity of nitre ; it is not found west of the little Gandak river.
Bhatha, of Bombay, literally flood deposit, alluvial deposit, left in the bed of a river either by the water receding or the river changing its course. Being always moist, it is very productive, and all the more valuable agricultural products can he produced. It is of the Goradu class of soils.
Bhit or Bhiti, of Bengal, raised ground near a tank, for Planting the piper betel on.
Bhumi, of N. India, land, earth cutturable land Bilu -bhumi, of Bombay, is iv'agle land, and in. Dharwar is arranged in six classes, viz. :— Gairan, free grazing ground.
Gaothan, the village site.
Khrab, uncultivated waste land.
Kuran, grazing land.
Hulabamu, grass land which is farmed. Turmandi, a vacant space in the village where cattle stand.
Bhur, Bhud, Bhuda, unproductive soil, seven-tenths sand, rest clay, sandy soil, not retentive of moisture. Bhud-khaki and Bhud-parani are varieties of it.
Bhur, answering to maira, is a light sandy soil ; the better kinds of it produce bajra, moth, mash, and jawar.
Biali, of Orissa, a rice crop sown about May or June, and reaped in October.
Bid, of Bombay, grass land.
Bijar soil of N. India is a stiff clay soil lying low, chiefly sown with rice only ; sometimes grain is also grown ; sometimes, as in Rai Baraili, this land fetches high rents. It is the land classed as mattiyar, and is generally inferior to domat.
Bijibur, of Berar, failure of crop sown, owing to seed not germinating.
Bindi, of Sind, sailab lands in the river.
Burki, of Bombay, a masonry structure for drawing water from rivers.