Behror

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This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Behror

Head-quarters of a tahs'tl of the same name in the State of Alwar, Rajputana, situated in 27° 53' N. and 76° 17' E., about 32 miles north-west of Alwar city, and 18 miles west-by-south-west of Ajeraka station on the Rajputana-Malwa Railway. Population (1901), 5,540. The town possesses a mud fort about 50 yards square, a fair bazar, a post office, a vernacular school, and a hospital with accommodation for 6 in-patients. A municipal committee supervises the lighting and conservancy, the income, derived mainly from octroi, being about Rs. 2,200 and the expenditure Rs. 1,800. The tahs'il, which contains 132 villages besides the town, is situated in the north-west of the State, and has a population of 71,082. More than 35 per cent, of the inhabitants are Ahars, who are the best cultivators in the State. Under the Mughals this tract was included in the Subah of Narnaul, but the real rulers were the local Chauhan chiefs. In the first half of the eighteenth century the Jats of Bharatpur overran it, but they were ousted before the end of that century by Pratap Singh, the first chief of Alwar.