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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 21, p. 234.

234 RANIKHE T Ranikhet. The income and expenditure of the cantonment fund averaged RS. 21,ooo during the ten years ending 19or. In 1903-4 the income was RS. 29,ooo and the expenditure Rs. 33,ooo. An excel- lent system of water-works has recently been carried out. Ranipet Subdivision. -Subdivision of North Arcot District, Madras, consisting of the tdluks of WALAJAPET and CHANDRAGIRI and the zaminddii tahsils of KALAHASTI and KARVETNAGAR. Ranipet Town (' queen's town').-Town in the Walajapet tdluk of North Arcot District, Madras, situated in 12° 56' N. and 79° 2o' E., on the north bank of the Palar river. Population (1900, 7,607. The place comprises the European quarters of Arcot, and is said to have been founded about the year 1713 by Saadat-ullah Khan, in honour of the youthful widow of Desing Raja of Gingee, who committed sati when her husband was slain by Saadat-ullah's forces. The place was of no importance till it became a British cantonment, when it was made a large cavalry station and rapidly extended. It is now the head-quarters of the divisional officer. The Roman Catholics and the American Mission have churches in the town. There is a large dispensary ; and .every Friday a fair is held on the old parade ground north of the town, where a larger number of cattle are sold than in any other market in the District. The Naulakh Bagh or ° nine-lakh garden' of mangoes and other trees, planted by one of the early Nawabs of Arcot, is near the town. Ranipura.-Petty State in MAHI KANTHA, Bombay. Rann of Cutch.-Salt waste in Bombay. See CUTCH, RANN OF. Ranpur.-One of the Tributary States of Orissa, Bengal, lying between 19° 54' and 20° 12' N. and 85° 8' and 85° 28' E., with an area of 203 square miles. It is bounded on the north, east, and south by Puri District, and on the west by the State of Nayagarh. The south-west is a region of forest-clad and almost entirely uninhabited hills, which wall in its whole western side, except at a single point, where a pass leads into the adjoining State of Nayagarh. To the north and east there are extensive fertile and populous valleys. The State claims to be the most ancient of all the Orissa Tributary States, and its long list of chiefs covers a period of over 3,6oo years. It is the only State whose ruler refrains from pretensions to an Aryan ancestry ; and in 1814, in response to an inquiry addressed to all the chiefs, the Raja was not ashamed to own his Khond origin. The State yields an estimated revenue of Rs. 54,ooo, and pays a tribute of Rs. 1,401 to the British Government. The population increased from 40,115 in 1891 to 46,075 in 1901. The number of villages is 261, and the density is 227 persons per square mile. Hindus number 45,762, by far the most numerous caste being the Chasas (14,ooo). The capital of the State is 14 miles from the Kalupara Ghat station of the East Coast