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DHARWAR , a See also:town and See also:district of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:southern See also:division of Bombay. The town has a station on the Southern Mahratta railway. The See also:population in Igor was 31,279. It has several ginning factories and a See also:cotton-See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
mill; two high See also:schools, one maintained by the See also:Government and the other by the See also:Basel See also:German See also:Mission.
The DISTRICT OF DHARWAR has an See also:area of 4602 sq. m. In the See also:north and north-See also:east are See also:great plains of See also:black See also:soil, favourable to cotton-growing; in the See also:south and See also:west are successive ranges of See also:low hills, with See also:flat fertile valleys between them. The whole district lies high and has no•large See also:rivers.
In 1901 the population was 1,113,298, showing an increase of 6% in the See also:decade. The most influential classes of the community are Brahmans and Lingayats. The Lingayats number 436,968, or 46% of the See also:Hindu population; they See also:worship the See also:symbol of See also:Siva, and See also:males and See also:females both carry this See also:emblem about their See also:person in a See also:silver See also:case. The See also:principal crops are millets, See also:pulse and cotton. The centres of the cotton See also:trade are See also:Hubli and See also:Gadag, junctions on the Southern Mahratta railway, which traverses the district in several directions.
The See also:early See also:history of the territory comprised within the district of Dharwar has been to a certain extent reconstructed from the inscription slabs and memorial stones which abound there. From these it is clear that the See also:country See also:fell in turn under the sway of the various dynasties that ruled in the See also:Deccan, memorials of the Chalukyan See also:dynasty, whether temples or See also:inscriptions, being especially abundant. In the 14th See also:century the district was first overrun by the Mahommedais, after which it was annexed to the newly established Hindu See also:kingdom of See also:Vijayanagar, an See also:official of which named See also:Dhar See also:Rao, according to See also:local tradition, built the fort at Dharwar town in 1403. After the defeat of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of Vijayanagar at Talikot (1565), Dharwar was for a few years practically See also:independent under its Hindu See also:governor; but in 1573 the fort was captured by the See also:sultan of See also:Bijapur, and Dharwar was annexed to his dominions. In 1685 the fort was taken by the See also:emperor See also:Aurangzeb, and Dharwar, on the break-up of the See also:Mogul See also:empire, fell under the sway of the See also:peshwa of See also:Poona. In 1764 the See also:province was overrun by Hyder See also:Ali of See also:Mysore, who in 1778 captured the fort of Dharwar. This was retaken in 1791 by the See also:Mahrattas. On the final overthrow of the peshwa in 1817, Dharwar was incorporated with the territory of the East India See also:Company.
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