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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 20, p. 152.

152 PI1?I YjP,4 TNA Mysore, situated in 12° 2o' N. and 76° 6' E., r3 miles from Hunsfir. Population (1901), 3,872. Its original name was Singapattana, but the king who built the fort of stone and extended the place in the sixteenth century named it after himself. It was in the possession of the Changalva kings of Nanjarajpatna (in Coorg) till 1644, when it was taken by Mysore. The Coorg Raja was confined here in the time of Tipu Sultan, but the fort was dismantled by the British on their advance against Seringapatam in 1791. The town is inhabited chiefly by traders, who export cotton, tobacco, and other commodities to Coorg, Cannanore, &c. A pack of hounds is maintained in the neighbourhood, which is regularly hunted by planters from Coorg and others. The municipality dates from 1898. The receipts and expen- diture during the three years ending rgor averaged Rs. 1,roo and Rs. goo. In 1903-4 they were Rs. 2,1oo and Rs. 1,700. Pir Mangho.-Hot springs in Karachi District, Sind, Bombay. See MAGAR TALAO. Pirmed.--Hill station on the Pirmed range of hills, forming the southern portion of the Cardamom Hills, Travancore State, Madras, situated in 9° 33' N. and 76° 59' E. Population (1901), 9,932. Its general elevation is from 3,000 to 3,500 feet. Around it are thirty tea estates owned by Europeans, containing about 8,ooo acres under crop. Roads connect the station with Changanacheri, Kottayam, Trivandrum, and other important places on the west, and with Madura District on the east. It is the head-quarters of the first-class magis- trate and Assistant to the Superintendent and District Magistrate of the Cardamom Hills, and contains postal and telegraph offices. Pirmed is supposed to be an abridgement of Pir-medu (° Pir's hill'), and to have been so called because a Musalman saint named Pir Muhammad once lived here in seclusion. Pirojpur Subdivision.-Western subdivision of Backergunge Dis- trict, Eastern Bengal and Assam, lying between 22° 1' and 22° 54' N. and 89° 52' and 90° 14' E., with an area of 692 square miles. The population in 1go1 was 553,494, compared with 5rg,6o3 in 1891. It contains one town, PIROJPUR (population, 14,119), the head-quarters, and 1,066 villages, and supports Boo persons per square mile, the density being greatest in the north and centre. In the extreme north it is covered with great swamps like the adjoining parts of Faridpur District, while in the south in the Matbari thana, where the density is only 480 persons per square mile, it merges in the SUNDARBANS. Pirojpur Town.-Head-quarters of the subdivision of the same name in Backergunge District, Eastern Bengal and Assam, situated in 22° 35' N. and 89° 59' E., on the Baleswar river. Population (1901), 14,119. Pirojpur was constituted a municipality in 1885. The income during the decade ending rgor-2 averaged Rs. 6,300, and