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Madras District Gazetteers. Gódávari

1907

GOdavari is roughly triangular in shape its base being formed by the line of the coast from the western mouth of the -616divari river to the Vizagapatam border one side by the 06divari river itself and the other by the irregular frontier of Vizagapatam and the Central Provinces. [...] The capital of the district is the busy seaport and municipality of Cocanada and with the exception of Nagaram taluk and Yellavaram division the head-quarters of the various taluks and divisions are the towns or villages from which they are named. [...] The little village of Chandurti in the Pithapuram division has given its name under the distorted form of Condore ' to the decisive battle by which the sovereignty of the whole of the Northern Circars was wrested by the British from the French. [...] Bha drachalam above the Eastern Ghats ; the hilly agency divisions which really form a part of that range ; the upland taluks which divide the agency hills from the lowlands of the delta ; and the delta of the G6davari itself. [...] In 1679 the encroachments of the river at Narasapur on the Vasishta G-Odavari forced many of the English merchants to leave their houses.' The greater portion of the area drained by the G6dAvari The season el receives more rain in the south-west than in the north-east moits floods.
government politics public policy
Pages
316
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xiii unknown view
Chapter I. Physical Description
1-i unknown view
Chapter II. Political History
17-37 unknown view
Chapter III. The People
38-67 unknown view
Chapter IV. Agriculture and Irrigation
68-91 unknown view
Chapter V. Forests
92-101 unknown view
Chapter VI. Occupations and Trade
102-123 unknown view
Chapter VII. Means of Communication
124-134 unknown view
Chapter VIII. Rainfall and Seasons
135-147 unknown view
Chapter IX. Public Health
148-152 unknown view
Chapter X. Education
153-159 unknown view
Chapter XI. Land Revenue Administration
160-180 unknown view
Chapter XII. Salt Abkári and Miscellaneous Revenue
181-187 unknown view
Chapter XIII. Administration of Justice
188-195 unknown view
Chapter XIV. Local Self-Government
196-199 unknown view
Chapter XV. Gazetteer
200-288 unknown view
Index
289-300 unknown view
Backmatter
i-i unknown view