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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 832 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BETTIA  , a

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town of
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British
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India, in the
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Champaran
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district of
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Bengal; situated on a former
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branch of the Harha
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river, with a station on the Tirhoot
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section of the Bengal &
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North-Western railway . Bettia is the
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residence of one of the leading noblemen of
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northern
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Behar, who enjoys a
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rent-
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roll of £66,000 . In 1901, owing to a disputed
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succession, the
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estate was under the management of the
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court of wards . It comprises
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land in no fewer than ten districts, much of which is let on permanent leases to
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indigo-planters . Besides the
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palace of the maharaja, the town contains a
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middle
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English school and a
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female dispensary, entirely supported out of the estate . There is a
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Roman
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Catholic
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mission, with about moo converts, which was founded by an
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Italian
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priest in 1746 .

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