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RATNAGIRI

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 918 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RATNAGIRI , 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 is on the seacoast, 136 m. S. of Bombay. Pop. (1901) 16,094. A leading See also:industry is the sardine See also:fishery, which usually takes See also:place in See also:January and See also:February, and engages fleets of canoes. The DISTRICT OF RATNAGIRI has an See also:area of 3998 sq. m. It forms a See also:strip between the western See also:Ghats and the See also:sea, and its See also:general See also:character is rugged; nearly all the fertile See also:land lies on the See also:banks of the streams which intersect the See also:country. The See also:coast, about 150 M. in length, is almost uniformly rocky and dangerous. At intervals of about to m. a See also:river or See also:bay opens, sufficiently large to See also:form a secure See also:harbour for native See also:craft, and the promontories at the river mouths are almost invariably crowned with the ruins of an old fort. The See also:rivers and creeks are generally navigable for about 20 m., and afford facilities for a See also:coasting See also:trade. At the beginning of British See also:rule there were no roads, and See also:traffic was confined to places where there was See also:water See also:carriage; but a network of roads has been made, opening communication by See also:hill passes with the See also:Deccan.

Ratnagiri formed See also:

part of the dominions of the See also:peshwa, and was annexed by the British See also:government in 1818 on the overthrow of Baji See also:Rao. In 1901 the See also:population was 1,167,927, showing an increase of 6% in the See also:decade. Ratnagiri is the See also:home of the influential class of Chitpavan Brahmans. It also supplies factory hands to Bombay and sepoys to the native See also:army.

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