The Imperial Gazetteer of India

VOLUME V. Ganjám (Ganj-i-ám “the granary of the world”).—British District in the extreme north-east of the Madras Presidency lying between 18° 15 and 20° 15 N. latituda arid between 83° 49 and 85° 15 E.o Bounded on the north by the Orissa Tributary States of liayak Daspalla and Bod of Bengal ; on the east by the Bengal District of Puri and the Bay of Bengal ; and on the west by the Feudatory [...] Owing to the vicinity of the Eastern Ghats to the sea however the floods subside with rapidity ; and from the same cause the rise of the waters in the rivers is frequently so great as to cause considerable damage to property and not unfrequently loss of life. [...] The present District of Ganjam formed under the Musalmans a part of the Chikakol Circar and the country south of the Rishikuliya river at Ganjam as far as Kasibtiga was known by the name of the Ichapur Province. [...] The earliest seat of government of the Aharn princes and the capital of their kingdom till the prosperity of the dynasty began to wane when it was transferred to Rangpur in the same"GARH1--GARHAIUKSTESAR. [...] The ALAKNANDA RIVER one of the main sources of the Ganges marks the central line of greatest depression and with its affluents receives the whole drainage of the District.