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conclusion of peace, and the partition of Tipu’s

made over

Bellary District was

broke out

to the

Nizam.

last

conquests, the

War, however, again

and on the capture of Seringapatam and death of Tipu



(1799), ^ redistribution was effected

—

Bellary District being divided between the Nizam and the Peshwa. In 1800, the Peshwa’s share was resumed; and the Nizam, in exchange for a subsidiary force of British troops, ceded to the Company the tract acquired by the treaties of 1792 and 1799, including Adoni and the remainder of the District of Bellary. The

Company to collect the revenue of their new provoked a general rebellion of the Palegars, but a force under Ceneral Campbell expelled the more turbulent from their estates, and awed the rest into submission. The revenue administration was then taken out of their hands entirely, and the maintenance of armed bodies prohibited, the whole of the ceded Districts being formed into a Commissionership under Colonel Monro as principal Collector (1800), and on his retirement (1807) re-cast into the two Districts of Cuddapah and first

attempt of the

territory

Bellary, with a Collector to each.

Since that date the peace of the District has been only twice disturbed.

In 1818, the Pindan's ineffectual assaults

made

a raid, plundering Harpanhalli and making

on Kudlighi and Raidrug.

from Bellary, and without there was a rising in

A

difficulty expelled the

Dharwar

District,

force

was despatched

marauders.

In 1857

and the tahsUddr of Harpanhalli

joined the insurgents with a force collected within his jurisdiction.

marched upon Ramandrug, but were overtaken by British troops Their defences were stormed by a wing of the 74th Highlanders, and the disturbance was quelled. The Census of 1881 returned a total population for the Population

'I’hey

at

Kopala.

.

—

]wesent District of Bellary (including the State of Sandur, 10,532) of 736,807 persons, as compared with 926,751 in 1871, or a decrease

of 20'5 per cent., due to the famine of 1876-78.

The

population

towns and 1174 villages, in an area of 5904 square Number of persons per square miles, and occupied 144,290 houses. mile, 125, varying from 177 in Hospet taluk to 64 in Sandur; number In point of density Bellary stands eighteenth per occupied house, 5 ‘2.

inhabited

among

10

the Districts of the Madras Presidency.

The males numbered

373,948, the females 362,859, the proportion being 508 males to 492 Of children under 10 years, females in every 1000 of the population. Classified there were 78,204 boys and 80,957 girls: total, 159,161. according to religion, 662,072, or 89^8 per cent, of the total population, are Hindus; 69,767, or 9-5 per cent., are Muhammadans; 4140, or 0-5

per cent., are Christians, chiefly ‘others,’ 208,

127 Eurasians.

Among

Roman

Catholics



620 are Jains



the Christians are included 552 Europeans

Classified according to sect, the

Hindus

and and

are nearly