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A MB UL UPALI—A ME THI.
230
AmbnlupalL State,
— Town A
population about 3000.
annual
in
Madras Presidency.
Ambulupali taluk of Travancore
the
0 23' n., long. 76° 24' 30" e. ; 9 canal connects it with Alleppi, and a great
Lat.
Head-
held here in April, attracts some local trade.
festival,
quarters of the taluk
and munsifs
magistrate’s
courts.
Famous
in
Bartolomeo’s protest against the
history as the scene of Fra Paolo
compulsory attendance of Christians at Hindu festivals. Until 1754 was the capital of the Chembagachari Rajas. Amblir (Amburdrug, Petambur). Town in the Vellore taluk North 0 Arcot District, Madras Presidency. Lat. 12 50' 25" n., long. 78° 44' 30" e. ; population (1881) 10,390, namely, 5991 Hindus, 4388 Muhammadans, and 1 1 Christians. A well-built and compact town, about 30 miles from Vellore, 79 miles from Bangalore, and 112 miles (by rail) from Madras, situated at the foot of the Kadapanatham Pass, which leads from the Eastern Hills of the Baramahal it lies on the south bank it
—
,
of the Palar
The
river.
railway station
is
within half a mile of the town,
and an excellent road connects it with Vellore and Salem. The Ambur Drug peak towers above the town. It possesses a considerable trade in oils, ghi, and indigo, which the Labbay merchants (Nagar Muhammadans) collect here for export to Madras both above and below the ghat but since the opening of the railway in i860 Ambur has lost its monopoly of the ghat carrying trade. The fort, situated on the almost ,
inaccessible
Ambur
Drug, and commanding an important pass into In 1750, the first
the Carnatic, was in past times keenly contested.
pitched battle in the great wars of the Carnatic was fought under
its
which Anwar-ud-dfn, the Nawab of Arcot, was defeated by Muzaffar Jang. This battle is remarkable as being the first occasion in which European troops played a conspicuous part in Indian warfare.
walls, in
In 1768, the
fort
was gallantly defended by the 10th regiment of
Madras Infantry. Twenty years later it was besieged by Haidar Ah', and taken only, however, to be restored by the Treaty of Mangalore. In the expeditions against Mysore, in 1792 and 1799, this fortress was occupied as a point of great importance on the line of communications. Amburpet. Town in Salem District, Madras Presidency. Lat.
—
12
0
47' 15" n., long.
A
6700.
Amer. Amet. ana.
78° 45' 15"
e.
houses, 1411; population (1881)
suburb of Vaniyambadi.
—Town —Town
in Jaipur State.
See
Amber.
in the Native State of
Udaipur (Oodeypore), Rajputby hills, on the
Situated in a fine valley, nearly surrounded
banks of the Chandrabhaga, a tributary of the Banas. One of the firstclass nobles of the State, owning 51 villages, resides here. The town is
walled.
Amethi. situated
—Village
on the
right
Farukhabad District, North-Western Provinces, bank of the Ganges, about a mile east of Farukh-
in
