The New Student's Reference Work/Arcot

Arcot (är-kŏt ' ), a city of, once the capital of the Carnatic, is situated on the Palar, about 70 miles southwest of. In it are many ruins, among them the palace of its princes, who were called nabobs. The people are, in the main, Mohammedans. Arcot was taken by in 1751, in the wars with the French, and finally became a British city in 1801. Population, 12,000.