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Encyclopedia Britannica



VELLORE

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 979 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VAN-VIR
VELLORE , a town of British. India, in the North Arcot
district
  of
Madras
 , on the river Palar and the
South
  Indian railway, 87 m. W. of
Madras
  city. ' Pop. (1901) 43,537. It has a strongly built fortress, which was famous in the wars of the Carnatic. It
dates
  traditionally from the 13th century, but more probably only from the 17th. It is a fine example of Indian military architecture, and contains a temple adorned with admirable sculptures. In 178o it withstood a siege for two years by
Ryder
  Ali. After the fall of
Seringapatam
  (1799) Vellore was selected as the residence of the sons of Tippoo Sahib, and to their intrigues has been attributed the mutiny of the sepoys here in 18o6. An American mission manages a high school, raised to the rank of a college in 1898;. and the police training school for the presidency is also situated here. Vellore has a large
grain
 
trade
 , and
flowers
  are cultivated in the vicinity.


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