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BRITISH ACQUISITIONS IN THE 

 No. XIII. 



Year. 



Territory. 



How acquired, and District now 

 representing it. 



Approximate 

 Area. 



Land 

 Revenue. 



1683 84. 



1688-89. 

 1702 .. 



1708 .. 



1719 .. 



1776 .. 

 1780 .. 

 1782 .. 



1784 .. 

 1794 .. 



Tellicherry . . 



Town and seaport in Malabar 



• 



(1.) Factory established under a Chief and 

 Factors by the President of Surat (Bruce 

 ii, 511) ; being the first Pepper settle- 

 ment on the Malabar Coast. 



(2.) Factory strengthened (Bruce ii, 616). 



(3.) Entered in the Dead Stock list of two 

 East India Companies as the " Fort of 

 Tellicherry." 



(4.) Formal grant obtained for the Fort 

 from the Cherakal Raja (Malabar Com- 

 mission Report, para. 9). 



(5.) Limits of settlement extended on 

 south side after a successful war with 

 the Coringotte Nair (idem). 



(6.) The settlement reduced from a Chief- 

 ship to a Residency. 



(7.) Besieged by Sirdar Khan, Hyder's 

 Faujdar, with the Cherakal Raja. 



(8.) Successful sortie under Major Abing- 

 don, and the siege raised (Malabar Com- 

 mission Report, para. 30). 



(9.) The Chief ship re-established. 



(10.) Chief ship abolished, and the settle- 

 ment placed directly under the Super- 

 visor of Malabar. 



Fortified 

 Factory 

 only. 



8Q. MILES. 



n 



Nil. 



R8. 



1,490 



No. XIV. 



1683 .. 

 1688 .. 



1691 .. 



Coniraere alias 

 Kunimedu. 



On the coast, South Arcot District, 10 

 miles north of Pondicherry. 



(1.) Factory established (Bruce ii, 519). 



(2.) Farm&n for a fortified, settlement and 

 liberty of trade, obtained on a present of 

 800 pagodas or Rupees 3,200, from Ram 

 Raja, who, on the assassination of his 

 elder brother Samba ji (Sivaji's succes- 

 sor) by Aurangzeb, and the simultaneous 

 captivity of Sahojl, Sambajl's son, had 

 been recognised as head of the Mahratta 

 dynasty by its subjects (Bruce ii, 652). 



(3.) Withdrawn by order of the Court of 

 Directors, on the purchase of Tegna- 

 patam (Fort St. David), (Bruce iii, 111). 

 [Vide Acq. No. XV). 



Factory 

 only. 



Nil. 



