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VIZIANAGRAM

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 165 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VIZIANAGRAM , a See also:

town of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Vizagapatam See also:district of See also:Madras, 17 M. from the seaport of See also:Bimlipatam, on the See also:East See also:Coast railway, 522 M. N.E. of Madras. Pop. (1901) 37,270. It has a small military See also:cantonment. It contains the See also:residence of a See also:zamindar of the same name, who ranks as the first See also:Hindu nobleman of Madras. His See also:estate covers about 3000 sq. m., with a See also:population of 900,000. The estimated income is £I8o,000 , paying a permanent See also:land See also:revenue of £34,000. The town possesses many See also:fine buildings, entirely supported by the See also:raja. It has a See also:college and two high See also:schools. The ruling See also:family, which claims descent from a high See also:official at the See also:court of See also:Golconda, established itself in Vizagapatam in the 17th See also:century. In 1754 Viziarama Raz made an See also:alliance with the See also:French, but his son, on succeeding, See also:fell out with them, captured Vizagapatam from them and ceded it to the Fritish in 1758.

The next raja, another Viziarama, was entirely under the See also:

influence of his See also:half-See also:brother Sita See also:Ram, whose See also:power, how-ever, became so See also:great a menace that he was forced to retire in 1793. A See also:period of decay now set in. The raja was incompetent, and, his estate having been sequestrated for See also:debt, revolted and was defeated and killed in 1794. The next raja, Narayana See also:Babu, was no more successful, and his estate had been See also:long under the management of the British See also:government when he died in 1845. Viziarama Gajapati Raz, who succeeded him and took over full See also:powers in 1852, was a See also:man of ability, and received the titles of maharaja and K.C.S.I.; as also was his son, the maharaja See also:Ananda Raz, G.C.I.E. He died in 1897, and was succeeded by Raja Pusapati Viziarama Gajapati Raz, during whose minority (till 1904) the estate was again under government See also:administration.

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