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GODAVARI , a See also:river of central and western See also:India. It flows at See also:Cocanada, See also:rice being shipped to See also:Mauritius and See also:Ceylon, and across the See also:Deccan from the Western to the Eastern See also:Ghats; its See also:cotton and oil-seeds to See also:Europe. Rice-cleaning See also:mills have been See also:total length is 900 m., the estimated See also:area of its drainage See also:basin, established here and at other places. The See also:district is traversed 112,200 ' sq. m. ItJs traditional source is on the See also:side of a See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill by the See also:main See also:line of the See also:East See also:Coast railway, with a See also:branch to behind the See also:village of Trimbak in See also:Nasik district; Bombay, where Cocanada; the See also:iron girder See also:bridge of See also:forty-two spans over the
Godavari river near See also:Rajahmundry was opened in 1900. There is a See also:government See also:college at Rajahmundry, with a training college attached, and an aided college at Cocanada.
The Godavari district formed See also:part of the Andhra See also:division of Dravida, the See also:north-See also:west portion being subject to the See also:Orissa See also:kings, and the See also:south-western belonging to the Vengi See also:kingdom. For centuries it was the battlefield on which various chiefs fought for See also:independence with varying success till the beginning of the 16th See also:century, when the whole See also:country may be said to have passed under See also:Mahommedan See also:power. At the conclusion of the struggle with the See also:French in the Carnatic, Godavari with the See also:Northern Circars was conquered by the See also:English, and finally ceded by imperial sanad in 1765. The district was constituted in 18J9, by the redistribution of the territory comprising the former districts of Guntur, Rajahmundry and See also:Masulipatam., into what are now the See also:Kistna and Godavari districts.
See H. See also:Morris, District See also:Manual (1878); District Gazetteer (1906).
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