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Encyclopedia Britannica



DINDIGUL

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 275 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DEM-DIO
DINDIGUL , a town of British India, in the
Madura
 
district
  of
Madras
 , 88o ft. above the sea, 40 M. from
Madura
  by rail. Pop. (1901) 25,182. Dindigul has risen into importance as the centre of a
trade
  in tobacco and manufacture of cigars, which are exported to England. There are two large European cigar factories here. The town has manufactures of
silk
 , muslin and blankets, and an export
trade
  in hides and cardamoms; and there is a large native Christian population, with two churches. The ancient fort, well preserved, stands on a
rock
  rising 350 ft. above. the town; this was formerly a position of
great
  strategic importance, commanding passes into Madura from Coimbatore, and figured prominently in the military operations of the Mahrattas in the 17th and 18th centuries, and of Hyder Ali in 1755 seq., being thrice captured by the British (1767, 1783, 1790). After the two first captures it was restored to Hyder Ali under treaty; after the third it was ceded to the
East
  India Company.


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