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RAJAHMUNDRY, or RAJAMAHENDRI

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 865 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PYR-RAY
RAJAHMUNDRY, or RAJAMAHENDRI , a town of British India, in the Godavari
district
  of
Madras
 . Pop. (1901) 36,408. It stands on the left bank of the river Godavari, at the head of the
delta
 , 36o m. N. of
Madras
 , and has a station on the
East
 
Coast
  railway, which is here carried across the river by a
bridge
  of 56 spans. The government college is one of the four provincial schools established in 1853. There are also a training college and high school. Carpets, rugs and wooden wares are manufactured.
Tradition divides the merit of
founding
  Rajahmundry between the
Orissa
  and Chalukya princes. In 1470 it was wrested from
Orissa
  by the Mahommedans, but early in the 16th century it was retaken by Krishna Raja. It continued under Hindu
rule
  till 1572, when it yielded to the Moslems of the Deccan under Rafat
Khan
 . It passed into the possession of the French in 1753, but they were driven out by the British under Colonel Forde in 1758.


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