Trichinopoli
the chief town of the district of the same name, Madras presidency, British India; on the Cauvery river; 320 miles S. S. W. of Madras. It is celebrated for its fort, which was built (circa 1570) by a native prince of Madura, and formed the object of all the wars between the English and the French in Southern India between 1749 and 1763, when Clive first rose to fame. The fort occupies a granite cliff rising 500 feet above the plain, crowned with a small pagoda, with a cave temple hewn out of its S. face. The walls have been leveled and the most filled up, and the whole is now being laid out as a boulevard. Trichinopoli is the headquarters of the brigadier commanding the Southern Division of the Madras army. There are barracks for European troops and artillery. In the church is the tomb of Bishop TRICHINOPOLI Heber, who died here in 1826. The manufactures include jewelry, paintings on talc, paper and pith ornaments. Pop. about 124,000. The district of Trichinopoli, which lies on both banks of the Cauvery, landward of Tranjore, has an area of 3,515 square miles. It abounds with gneiss, granite, iron ore and limestone. The products are rice, cotton, sugar, oil seeds, and tobacco. The exports include saltpeter, hewn stone for building, and grindstones. The imports are English piece goods. Besides the manufactures of the town, basket boats are made of wicker work covered with hides.