CIRCARS, THE

CIRCARS, THE
   a territory in India along the coast of the Bay of Bengal, from 18 to 100 m. wide; ceded first to the French and in 1766 to the East India Company, now of course under the Crown, and forming part of the Madras Presidency.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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