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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 16, p. 25.

KUNDAHS. ` 25 since 1868. During the, ten years ending 1901 the income and ex penditure averaged Rs. 13,000: In 1gct3-4 the income was Rs. 22,000, chiefly from octroi (Rs. r3,ooo) and a tax on professions and trades (Rs. 2,ooo); and the expenditure was Rs. 22,ooo. The town is the largest trading centre in the District, and is increasing in importance: Grain and ghi are the chief exports, and a large cattle market is held. Sugar, tobacco, and rice are imported for distribution to the country around. The tahsidi school has 66 pupils, .'four municipal schools zoo, and' a girls' school 22 pupils. KundrL Tahsil-South-western tahsil of Partābgarh District, United Provinces, comprising the parganas of Bihar,, Dhingwas, Ranipur, and Mānikpur, and lying between 25° 34' and 26' r' N. and 81°• 1g' and 8r° 47' E., with an area, of 543 square miles. Population fell from 332,876 in 1891 to 323,508 in igor, this being the only tahsil in which a decrease occurred. There are 686, villages and only one town, Manikpur (population, 3,673). The demand for land revenue in 1903-4 was Fs. 4,8o,ooo, and for cesses Rs. 78,ooo. . The density of population, 596 persons per square mile, is below the District average. The tahsil lies north-east of the Ganges, which is bordered by a high tract of fertile loam. Farther iriland the soil becomes clay, and many jhils or swamps supply water for rice cultivation. In 1903-4 the area under cultivation was 289 square miles, of which 151 were irrigated; Wells and tanks or swamps supply irrigation in almost equal :pro- portions. Kunda Fort.--Ruined fort in the head-quarters subdivision of Haiāribāgh District, Bengal, situated in 24° 13' N. and 84° 39' E. It is in the form of a parallelogram, about 280 feet long by-170 feet broad, with a square central entrance tower on the west front, and four square corner towers connected by straight battlemented-walls with' an average height of 30 feet. It was admirably suited for defence, being situated on a tongue of land projecting into a basin surrounded by hills, except on the east side, where it commands a gorge. Kundahs.-Range of hills in the Nilgiri District, Madras, lying . between 11° 12' -and 110 23' N. and 76° 26' and 76° ,43'. E., and forming the south-western wall of the Nilgiri plateau, which rises abruptly from Malabar. The summit of the ridge is rocky and pre- cipitous ; and the sides, covered in places with grass and in the hollows clothed wit$ thick forest, slope on the north down to the bed of the Kundah river, which separates this range from the rest of the table-land, and on the south drop suddenly for a great depth into the steep-sided valley of the Bhavani., The three -highest points in the range are Avalanche Peak (8,502 feet),, Bear Hill (8,353 feet), and Makurti (8) 403. feet). . The best big-game shooting on the plateau is to be had here. Seen from Ootacamund the Kundahs are remarkably beautiful;