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TAMLUK

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 391 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TAMLUK  , an

ancient
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town of
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British India, in the
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Midnapore
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district of Bengal, on the
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river Rupnarayan . Pop . (19o1) 8805 . Under the name of '1'aniralipta was the capital of the Peacock dynasty, and a seaport at which the Chinese Buddhist pilgrims embarked . It is now 6o m. from the sea, and the ruins of the old city lie deep beneath river silt . It contains the palace of a
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local
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raja, and some temples of
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peculiar construction .

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