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BOBBILI

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 100 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOBBILI  , a

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town of
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British India, in the
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Vizagapatam
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district of
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Madras, 70 M. north of Vizagapatam town . Pop . (190r) 17,387 . It is the residence of a
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raja of old
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family, whose estate covers an
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area of 227 sq. m.; estimated income, £40,000; permanent Iand revenue, 9000 . The attack on the fort at Bobbili made by General Bussy in 1756 is one of the most memorable episodes in
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Indian
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history . There was a constant
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feud between the chief of Bobbili and the raja of
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Vizianagram; and when Bussy marched to restore order the raja persuaded him that the fault
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lay with the chief of Bobbili and joined the French with 11,000 men against his
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rival . In spite of the fact that the French field-pieces at once made practicable breaches in the mud walls of the fort, the defenders held out with desperate valour . Two assaults were repulsed after hours of hand-to-hand fighting; and when, after a fresh
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bombardment, the garrison saw that their case was hopeless, they killed their
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women and children, and only succumbed at last to a third assault because every man of them was either killed or mortally wounded . An old man, however, crept out of a hut with a child, whom he presented to Bussy as the son of the dead chief . Three nights later four followers of the chief of Bobbili crept into the
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tent of the raja of Vizianagram and stabbed him to
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death . The child, Chinna Ranga Rao, was invested by Bussy with his
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father's estate, but during his minority it was seized by his
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uncle . After a temporary arrangement of terms with the raja of Vizianagram the old feud broke out again, and the Bobbili chief was forced to take
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refuge in the
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nizam's country .

In 1794, however, on the break-up of the Vizianagram estate, Chinna Ranga Rao was restored by the British, and in i8ot a permanent

settlement was made with his son . The title of raja was recognized as hereditary in the family; that of maharaja was conferred as a
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personal distinction on
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Sir Venkataswetachalapati Ranga Rao, K.C.I.E., the adopted
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great-great-grandson of Chinna Ranga Rao . For the siege see Imp . Gazetteer of India (Oxford, 1908), s. v .

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