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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
