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MASULIPATAM, or BANDAR

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 875 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MASULIPATAM, or BANDAR , a seaport of See also:British See also:India, administrative headquarters of the See also:Kistna See also:district of See also:Madras, on one of the mouths of the See also:river Kistna, 215 M. N. of Madras See also:city. Pop. (1901), 39,507. Masulipatam was the earliest See also:English See also:settlement on the Coromandel See also:coast, its importance being due to the fact that it was the bandar or See also:port of See also:Golconda. An agency was established there in 1611. During the See also:wars of the Carnatic, the English were temporarily expelled the See also:town, which was held by the See also:French for some years. In 1759 the town and fort were carried by See also:storm by See also:Colonel See also:Forde, an achievement followed by the acquisition of the See also:Northern Circars (q.v.). In 1864 a See also:great storm-See also:wave swept over the entire town and is said to have destroyed 30,000 lives. Weavers See also:form a large portion of the inhabitants, though their See also:trade has greatly declined since the beginning of the 19th See also:century. Their operations, besides See also:weaving, include See also:printing, See also:bleaching washing and dressing. In former days the chintzes of Masulipatam had a great reputation abroad for the freshness and permanency of their dyes.

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Church Missionary Society. The port is only a roadstead, where vessels See also:anchor 5 M. out. A See also:branch See also:line from See also:Bezwada on the See also:Southern Mahratta railway was opened in 1908. The See also:chief educational institution is the See also:Noble See also:College of the C.M.S.

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