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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 100 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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town of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Vizagapatam See also:district of See also:Madras, 70 M. See also:north of Vizagapatam town. Pop. (190r) 17,387. It is the See also:residence of a See also:raja of old See also:family, whose See also:estate covers an See also:area of 227 sq. m.; estimated income, £40,000; permanent Iand See also:revenue, 9000. The attack on the fort at Bobbili made by See also:General See also:Bussy in 1756 is one of the most memorable episodes in See also:Indian See also:history. There was a See also:constant See also:feud between the See also:chief of Bobbili and the raja of See also:Vizianagram; and when Bussy marched to restore See also:order the raja persuaded him that the See also:fault See also:lay with the chief of Bobbili and joined the See also:French with 11,000 men against his See also:rival. In spite of the fact that the French See also:field-pieces at once made practicable breaches in the mud walls of the fort, the defenders held out with desperate valour. Two assaults were repulsed after See also:hours of See also:hand-to-hand fighting; and when, after a fresh See also:bombardment, the See also:garrison saw that their See also:case was hopeless, they killed their See also:women and See also:children, and only succumbed at last to a third See also:assault because every See also:man of them was either killed or mortally wounded. An old man, however, crept out of a hut with a See also:child, whom he presented to Bussy as the son of the dead chief. Three nights later four followers of the chief of Bobbili crept into the See also:tent of the raja of Vizianagram and stabbed him to See also:death. The child, Chinna Ranga See also:Rao, was invested by Bussy with his See also:father's estate, but during his minority it was seized by his See also:uncle. After a temporary arrangement of terms with the raja of Vizianagram the old feud See also:broke out again, and the Bobbili chief was forced to take See also:refuge in the See also:nizam's See also:country.

In 1794, however, on the break-up of the Vizianagram estate, Chinna Ranga Rao was restored by the British, and in i8ot a permanent See also:

settlement was made with his son. The See also:title of raja was recognized as hereditary in the family; that of maharaja was conferred as a See also:personal distinction on See also:Sir Venkataswetachalapati Ranga Rao, K.C.I.E., the adopted See also:great-great-See also:grandson of Chinna Ranga Rao. For the See also:siege see See also:Imp. Gazetteer of India (See also:Oxford, 1908), s. v.

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