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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 245 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GOOTY , a See also:

town and See also:hill fortress in See also:southern See also:India, in the See also:Anantapur See also:district of See also:Madras, 48 m. E. of See also:Bellary. Pop. (1901) 9682. The town is surrounded by a circle of rocky hills, connected by a See also:wall. On the highest of these stands the citadel, 2100 ft. above See also:sea-level and r000 ft. above the surrounding See also:country. Here was the stronghold of Morari See also:Rao Ghorpade, a famous Mahratta See also:warrior and ally of the See also:English, who was ultimately starved into surrender by Hayder See also:Ali in 1775.

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