Mahanoy City
a borough in Schuylkill co., Pa., on Mahanoy Creek and on the Lehigh Valley and the Philadelphia and Reading railroads; 13 miles N. E. of Pottsville. It contains a public library, electric lights, National banks, daily and weekly newspapers, and churches of the leading denominations.
It is located in a rich anthracite coal region, from which it gains much of its prosperity. It has colleries, several potteries, iron foundries, etc. Pop. (1910) 15,936; (1920) 15,599.
MAHARAJAH (literally, a great king), a title applied in courtesy to every Indian rajah, or to any person of high rankor deemed holy MAHATMA (-hat'-), a word meaning "the great-souled one," and applied among the Brahmans to one who has attained the highest possible point of spiritual enlightenment. It is used as a term of respect.
MAHÉ (mä-hā'), an island in the Seychelles or Mahé Archipelago, in the Indian Ocean, about 17 miles long and 4 miles broad. Port Victoria is the capital.
MAHI KANTHA (mä'hē kän'thä) AGENCY, in the presidency of Bombay, India, a group of 52 native states, bounded by Udaipur on the N. and Baroda and Ahmedabad on the W.; total area, 3,125 square miles (over one MAHLER half belonging to the state of Edar or previous conquests. In 1743 renewed Idar); the British government assumed the management of these states in 1820.
Pop. about 450,000.