(Terniinalia tomentosa).
forests will shortly
there
are also exported, as well as myra-
of the karaka (Terminalia
bolams, the produce
be laid out
reserves.
in
an extensive area of waste lands, which
is
These
Chebula).
In the Sarvassiddhi taluk will
now be
utilized
‘reserved forest,’ partly as ‘fuel and fodder reserves.’
partly as
land consists chiefly of stony
hills,
the Parvati'pur taluk there are
still
A
protection.
History.
and the
This In
to the sea.
some patches of sal forest
but they
hills
along the sea-coast about Bimlipatam
Vizianagram zatn'inddn, would repay
forest division has lately
—The
down
chiefly in the
are being denuded,
and Vizagapatam,
w'hich stretch
been constituted.
present District of Vizagapatam formed, in the early
days of Hindu history, a portion of the ancient kingdom of Kalinga.
was subsequently conquered by the eastern branch of the Chalukya
It
dynasty, which originally settled at Vengi, near Ellore, and afterwards transferred it
its
capital to
possesses the
same
Rajamahendri (Rajahmundry). As a general
history as the whole maritime tract from
rule,
Ganjam
sometimes belonging to the Gajapati Rajas of Orissa, and sometimes to the rulers of Telingana. In later times, Muhammad to the Godavari,
II.,
of the
Bahmani dynasty
in the
Deccan, assisted a claimant
to gain
and received from him in return the Provinces of Kandhapalli and Rajamahendri (Rajahmundry). During the confusion consequent on the overthrow of the Bahmani dynasty, the sovereign of Orissa recovered those Provinces but Ibrahim, of the Kutabshahi line, not only retook them, but also annexed to his dominions the whole country as far north as Chicacole. On the subjugation of Golconda by Aurangzeb in 1687, these northern Provinces nominally formed part of his magnificent Empire but his sovereignty over them w’as merely a military occupation. They were farmed by zammddrs, or governed by military chiefs. Vizagapatam was placed more directly under the the throne of Orissa,
j
Emperor’s viceroy, stationed
On the dissolution of the
at Chicacole.
Mughal Empire, the Northern Circars
passed into the possession of the Nizam of Haidar^bad, who established
a
hitherto,
better
the
revenue
principal
and
judicial
Muhammadan
system officials
than being
had
existed
stationed
at
Rajamahendri (Rajahmundry) and Chicacole. During the disputed succession which ensued on the death of the first Nizam, the French rendered such essential services in placing Salabat Jang on the throne, that he presented to them the four Sarkdrs (Circars) of Mustafanagar, Ellore, Rajamahendri, and Chicacole, as they were then called. M. Bussy, the greatest military genius whom the French ever possessed in India, received the farmdns for them in 1753. After a time, M. Bussy himself assumed the government and during one of his campaigns the memorable siege of Bobbili occurred, which made such a deep impression on the Hindus, that it has been commemorated in ballads •,
