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 of Rs. 15,000 for it. The attachments of this and the neighbouring tanas of Jeypore which were necessitated by the disturbances of 1849—50 and 1855-56 are referred to on pp. 268-9 below.

In July 1864 trouble occurred with the Savaras. One of their headmen having been improperly arrested hf the police of Pottasingi they effected a rescue, killed the Inspector and four constables, and burnt down the station-house. The Raja of Jeypore was requested to use his influence to procure the arrest of the offenders, and eventually twenty-four were captured, of whom nine were transported for life and five were sentenced to death and hanged at Jalteru, at the foot of the ghat to Pottasingi. Government presented the Raja with a rifle and other gifts in acknowledgement of his assistance. The country did not immediately calm down, however, and in 1865 a body of police who were sent to establish a post in the hills were attacked and forced to beat a retreat down the ghat. A large force was then assembled, and after a brief but harassing campaign the post was firmly occupied in January 1866. Three of the ringleaders of this rising were transported for life. The hill Savaras remained timid and suspicious for some years afterwards, and as late as 1874 the reports mention it as a notable fact that they were beginning to frequent markets on the plains and that the low country people no longer feared to trust themselves above the ghats.

The only places of interest in Gunupur taluk are the following : —

Gudari : Eighteen miles north of Gunupur, on the bank of the Vamsadhdra; the second largest village in the taluk (population 2,250) and the head-quarters of an amin of the Jeypore zamindari. The Gudari tana forms part of the estate of Naurangpur referred to in the account of the latter village below. Colonel Campbell, of the Meriah agency, was the first European to visit the place (in 1851) and he built a guard-house and small bungalow in it and left a guard of sibbandis there.

The town is healthy and is a centre for the trade in the produce of the country, especially sal wood, its inhabitants are largely immigrants from the plains.

Gunupur, the head-quarters of the deputy tahsildar and of an amin of Jeypore estate, contains (including its suburb Kapuguda) 5,187 inhabitants. The public buildings stand in Kapuguda and include the deputy tahsildar's cutcherry, built in 1900, a hospital (1890), school (1893) and travellers' bungalow. The place is picturesquely situated on the bank of the Vamsadhara