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KALAHANDI (formerly KAROND)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 637 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KALAHANDI (formerly KAROND) , a feudatory See also:state of See also:India, which was transferred from the Central Provinces to the See also:Orissa See also:division of See also:Bengal in 1905. A range of the Eastern See also:Ghats runs from N.E. to S.W. through the state, with open undulating See also:country to the See also:north. See also:Area 3745 sq. m.; pop. (Igor), 350,529; estimated See also:revenue, £8000 ; See also:tribute, £800. The inhabitants mostly belong to the aboriginal See also:race of See also:Khonds. A murderous outbreak against See also:Hindu settlers called for armed intervention in 1882. The See also:chief, Raghu Kishor Deo, was murdered by a servant in 1897, and during the minority of his son, Brij Mohan Deo, the state was placed in See also:charge of a See also:British See also:political See also:agent. The See also:capital is Bhawani See also:Patna.

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