The international geography . of these tracts is rich inspices, coco-nut, and, since British occu-pation, in coffee and tea. Millets and oil seeds, with a little cotton, are thestaple crops of the uplands. These difterences, with those of language, andthe wide development of the caste spirit, keep the people apart to anunusual extent. Towns of Madras.—Large towns, with the exception of the sea-ports, are Httle more than local trading centres, or, like Tanjore, theformer residence of a chief and his court. Madras, with a populationof over half a million, is, like Calcutta and Bombay, the result
The international geography . of these tracts is rich inspices, coco-nut, and, since British occu-pation, in coffee and tea. Millets and oil seeds, with a little cotton, are thestaple crops of the uplands. These difterences, with those of language, andthe wide development of the caste spirit, keep the people apart to anunusual extent. Towns of Madras.—Large towns, with the exception of the sea-ports, are Httle more than local trading centres, or, like Tanjore, theformer residence of a chief and his court. Madras, with a populationof over half a million, is, like Calcutta and Bombay, the result ofBritish occupation, and was, in fact, the first permanent territorialpossession of the Company. It has, however, few manufactures, and,owing to its open roadstead, far less trade than its fellows, and the develop-ment of the smaller ports su^h as Negipatam, Coconada. CUicut, Manga-lore Tuticorin, diverts much of the exports which would otherwisehave been obliged to seek an outlet through the capital Madras, accord-. s-/2£ADRAS Xn^ltUKJeiej Fig. 2$^—Site of Madras. India—Assam 495 ingly, is relatively more of a literary and professional centre than eitherCalcutta or Bombay. The same feature is to be found in Madura andCombaconam; Trichnwpoly has considerable local business to keep itup. Tanjore, with about the same population as its neighbour Com-baconam, is both the centre of the most densely peopled tract insouthern India, along the lower Kavari, and has the tradition of anative Court, which only ceased to exist in the middle of the nineteenthcentury, so that the classes attracted by its favour have not yet diedout. Bellary, like Trichinopoly, is the centre of a large agriculturaltract, though by no means *o be compared with the south in fertilityand population. It has, however, railway communication with eastand west, and a large military suburb. Calicut, the principal port ofMalabar, is a town of ancient fame as the capital of the Zamorin, andhas revived of la
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