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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query>
    <allpages>
      <p pageid="398" ns="0" title="Backwardness" />
      <p pageid="600" ns="0" title="Bank Rate" />
      <p pageid="394" ns="0" title="Banking Correspondent (BC)" />
      <p pageid="24" ns="0" title="Base Effect" />
      <p pageid="257" ns="0" title="Base Rate" />
      <p pageid="269" ns="0" title="Basic Port Statistics of India (BPSI)" />
      <p pageid="186" ns="0" title="Basic Road Statistics of India (BRSI)" />
      <p pageid="438" ns="0" title="Begging" />
      <p pageid="642" ns="0" title="Benami Property" />
      <p pageid="72" ns="0" title="Bid Rigging" />
    </allpages>
  </query>
  <query-continue>
    <allpages apfrom="Bio-fuels" />
  </query-continue>
</api>