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 and long. 73°

Area, 235 square miles.

50' E.

estimated gross revenue, about

481

Population (1881) 31,094 Lying along the eastern



12,600.

slopes of the main line of the Sahyadri Hills, the country is for the most part rugged, yielding little but timber and brushwood. The ruler

of this State, with the

title

of Pratinidhi or vicegerent,

Rdjaram

i.,

is

a feudatory

Purusuram Trimbak,

of Kolhapur, paying a yearly tribute of ^^598. at that time commandant of the Vishalgarh

fort, was in 1697, by the younger son of Sivaji the Great, raised to the rank of

Maratha

Pratinidhi, the highest of the original

dignities.

Purusuram and

his son supporting different sides in the struggle for headship (1700-31)

between the Sdtdra and Kolhapur branches of Sivaji’s family, the former was created Pratinidhi of Satara, and the latter Pratinidhi of Kolhapur. Bhagwant Rao Abaji, the first chief brought into connection with the British Government, died in 1819. The next three succeeded to the estate by adoption. The last of these died in 1871, leaving an infant. This child, Abaji Krishna Panth Pratinidhi, a Hindu of the Brahman caste, a minor, is (1883-84) under the guardianship of the Political Agent of Kolhapur, and has attended the Rajaram College for chiefs

at

The

Kolhapur.

The

of 255 pupils.

town

is

situated in

 Visnagar of the State

(

The

chief

There are four schools, with a

total

family follow the rule of primogeniture.

maintains a retinue of 61 followers.

lat.

capital of the State

16° 54' 30" n.,

Visalnagar).

and

—Chief town

of Baroda, Gujarat,

Malkapur.

is

long. 73° 47'

Vishalgarh

e.

of the Visnagar Sub-division

Bombay

Population

Presidency.

Visnagar was (1881) 19,602, namely, males 9615, and females 9987. founded, according to one account, by Visal Deo, a Chauhan Rajput,

and according to another, by a prince of the same name, of Waghela clan, between 1243 and 1261. This town was originally the seat of one of the six classes of Nagar Brahmans, and gives its name many of these are now to a sub-division known as Visnagar Brahmans followers of Swdmi Nardyan, the religious reformer whom Bishop Heber met in Gujardt in 1825.

 Vissanapet. Zamindari taluk of Kistna District, Madras Presidency. Area, 324 square miles. Population (1881) 54,401, namely, males 27,733, and females 26,668; occupying 10,099 houses in 88 villages. Hindus number 52,775; Muhammadans, 1488; and Christians 138. The annual rental of the Vissanapet zamindari is £4096. the peshkash or fixed revenue is 489.

 Vissanapet.—Village in Kistna District, Madras Presidency, and the chief town of Vissanapet zamindari; situated about 32 mildes north of Bezwada. Population (1881) 1568, namely, Hindus 1512, and Mohammadans 56; occupying 297 houses.

 Viswaganga.— River of Berar,

Buldana

District,

VOL. XIII.

Madras Presidency, and

situated about 32 miles north

in

lat.

having

20° 34' n.,

and

its

Hindus 1512, and

source near Bulddna in

long.

76° 16'

It

e.

2

H

flows

