RAJAHMUNDRY

räˈjəməndrē, city (1991 pop. 401,397), Andhra Pradesh state, E central India, in the Godavari River delta. It is a center of the tobacco industry and headquarters of the Godavari irrigation works. The Pushkaram religious festival, attracting thousands of pilgrims, is held there every 12 years. In the 15th cent. Rajahmundry was a fortress town of the Bahmani and Vijayanagar kingdoms.

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Classical Telugu Poetry: An Anthology
Book by Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman; University of California Press, 2002
Subjects: Telugu Poetry--1500-1800--Translations Into English, Telugu Poetry--To 1500--Translations Into English
...to the southwest near Ka apa , and Sa gamesvara to the northwest. AllamrajuJaggaravu Sarma, Srisaila sampur a caritra Rajahmundry: Laksminarayana Book Depot, 1986 , 1; P. V . Parabrahma Sastry, Srisailam, Its History and Cult Guntur: Laksmi Mallikarjuna...
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Tidings of the King: A Translation and Ethnohistorical Analysis of the Rayavacakamu
Book by Phillip B. Wagoner; University of Hawaii, 1993
Subjects: Krishnadeva Raya--King Of Vijayanagar--D. 1529 Or 30, Vijayanagar (Empire)--Kings And Rulers--Biography
...Hurrying on our way from Vidyanagara , we went to the Gajapati kingdom to survey its various districts. We inspected Rajahmundry, Cuttack, and some other places; finally, since Mukunda Bahubalendra Gajapati was staying in the presence of Lord Jagannatha...
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Personal Causation: The Internal Affective Determinants of Behavior
Book by Richard DeCharms; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1983
Subjects: Motivation (Psychology)
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Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia
Book by Sheldon Pollock; University of California Press, 2003
Subjects: Indic Literature--History And Criticism, Literature And Society--South Asia--History, Politics And Literature--South Asia--History
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India and Pakistan: A General and Regional Geography
Book by O. H. K. Spate; Methuen, 1954
Subjects: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
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Variolation, Vaccination and Popular Resistance in Early Colonial South India
Journal article by Niels Brimnes; Medical History, Vol. 48, 2004
Subjects: Smallpox Vaccine
...there was an outbreak of smallpox in Rajahmundry.27 From the earlier so successful Masulipatam...campaign. Thus, in 1801, the collector in Rajahmundry believed he could overcome widespread...of the Hindoos in general", and from Rajahmundry the collector reported that not a single...


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Is There a Science of Success?
Magazine article by Nicholas Lemann; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 273, February 1994
Subjects: Achievement motivation--Research, McClelland, David C.--Research, Motivation (Psychology)--Research, Psychologists--Research, Success--Psychological aspects, Thematic apperception test--Usage
...controls a group of untrained businessmen from a nearby city, Rajahmundry, and were able to generate statistics showing that the trainees...leap from tables of data about businessmen in Kakinada and Rajahmundry into an empyrean realm of intellectual ambition. He observed...


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THE INDIAN HOPE TRICK; CHURCH IS DUPED OUT OF [Pounds Sterling]16,000 BY BENGAL CONMAN'S APPEAL FOR PHANTOM ORPHANAGE
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 22, 1996
...straight into the pockets of a conman, says the Foreign Office. The letter from the Christs Helping Hand Childrens Home in Rajahmundry, Bengal, was passed to St Marys Church in 1983. Taking every precaution, the churchgoers contacted an Indian bishop who...


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Rajahmundry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
RAJAHMUNDRY ra j m ndre, city (1991 pop. 401,397), Andhra Pradesh state, E central India, in the Godavari River delta. It is...The Pushkaram religious festival, attracting thousands of pilgrims, is held there every 12 years. In the 15th cent. Rajahmundry was a fortress town of the Bahmani and Vijayanagar kingdoms. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University...
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Godavari
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Manjra and Indravati rivers are its chief tributaries. Below Rajahmundry , c.50 mi (80 km) from the coast, the river divides into...to the Krishna River delta to the southwest. A dam NW of Rajahmundry provides water for irrigation and generates hydroelectricity...


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