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A MB UL UPALI—A ME THI.

230

AmbnlupalL State,

— Town A

population about 3000.

annual

in

Madras Presidency.

Ambulupali taluk of Travancore

the

0 23' n., long. 76° 24' 30" e. ; 9 canal connects it with Alleppi, and a great

Lat.

Head-

held here in April, attracts some local trade.

festival,

quarters of the taluk

and munsifs

magistrate’s

courts.

Famous

in

Bartolomeo’s protest against the

history as the scene of Fra Paolo

compulsory attendance of Christians at Hindu festivals. Until 1754 was the capital of the Chembagachari Rajas. Amblir (Amburdrug, Petambur). Town in the Vellore taluk North 0 Arcot District, Madras Presidency. Lat. 12 50' 25" n., long. 78° 44' 30" e. ; population (1881) 10,390, namely, 5991 Hindus, 4388 Muhammadans, and 1 1 Christians. A well-built and compact town, about 30 miles from Vellore, 79 miles from Bangalore, and 112 miles (by rail) from Madras, situated at the foot of the Kadapanatham Pass, which leads from the Eastern Hills of the Baramahal it lies on the south bank it

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of the Palar

The

river.

railway station

is

within half a mile of the town,

and an excellent road connects it with Vellore and Salem. The Ambur Drug peak towers above the town. It possesses a considerable trade in oils, ghi, and indigo, which the Labbay merchants (Nagar Muhammadans) collect here for export to Madras both above and below the ghat but since the opening of the railway in i860 Ambur has lost its monopoly of the ghat carrying trade. The fort, situated on the almost ,

inaccessible

Ambur

Drug, and commanding an important pass into In 1750, the first

the Carnatic, was in past times keenly contested.

pitched battle in the great wars of the Carnatic was fought under

its

which Anwar-ud-dfn, the Nawab of Arcot, was defeated by Muzaffar Jang. This battle is remarkable as being the first occasion in which European troops played a conspicuous part in Indian warfare.

walls, in

In 1768, the

fort

was gallantly defended by the 10th regiment of

Madras Infantry. Twenty years later it was besieged by Haidar Ah', and taken only, however, to be restored by the Treaty of Mangalore. In the expeditions against Mysore, in 1792 and 1799, this fortress was occupied as a point of great importance on the line of communications. Amburpet. Town in Salem District, Madras Presidency. Lat.

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12

0

47' 15" n., long.

A

6700.

Amer. Amet. ana.

78° 45' 15"

e.



houses, 1411; population (1881)

suburb of Vaniyambadi.

—Town —Town

in Jaipur State.

See

Amber.

in the Native State of

Udaipur (Oodeypore), Rajputby hills, on the

Situated in a fine valley, nearly surrounded

banks of the Chandrabhaga, a tributary of the Banas. One of the firstclass nobles of the State, owning 51 villages, resides here. The town is

walled.

Amethi. situated

—Village

on the

right

Farukhabad District, North-Western Provinces, bank of the Ganges, about a mile east of Farukh-

in