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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 21, p. 273.

RA YACHOTI TAM UK 273 during the.ten years ending 1902-3 averaged Rs. 96,ooo and Rs. 93,000 respectively. The chief educational institutions are the Government normal school, the Gordon Arts college maintained by the American United Presbyterian Mission, and five aided Anglo-vernacular high schools. The cantonment also contains an English and several Anglo- vernacular middle schools, and an English convent school for girls. The town has a civil hospital, with two branch dispensaries. Rawal- pindi has a large carrying trade with Kashmir. The principal factories are the North-Western Railway locomotive and carriage works, where the number of employes in 1904 was 1,455 ; and the arsenal, which in the same year gave employment to 569 persons. Besides these, the Rawalpindi gas-works had 170 employes ; a branch of the Murree Brewery, Zoo ; a tent factory, 252 ; an iron foundry, 123 ; and four smaller factories an aggregate of 150 employes. The horse fair held by the District board in April is one of the largest in the Punjab. There are branches of the Alliance Bank of Simla and of the Commercial Bank of India in the cantonment. Raya.-South-eastern tahsil of Sialkot District, Punjab, lying on the north bank of the Ravi between 31° 43' and 32° 13' N. and 74° 22' and 75' r' E., with an area Of 485 square miles. The Degh in its course through the western portion of the tahsil deposits a fertile silt. In the north-east also the land is rich. In the south the soil is saline, but abundant crops of rice are grown in good years. The population in 1901 was 192,440, compared with 214,671 in 1891. It contains the town of NAROWAL (population, 4,422) and 456 villages, including Raya, the head-quarters. The land revenue and cesses in 1903-4 amounted to Rs.3,77,000. Rayachoti TMuk-Central taluk of Cuddapah District, Madras, lying between 13° 5o' and 14° 2o' N. and 78' 25' and 79° ro' E., with an area of 998 square miles. It is flanked on the east by the Palkonda Hills, which separate this tract from the lower country. The popula- tion in 1901 was 113,912, compared with 113,236 in 1891; and the density was 114 persons per square mile, compared with the District average of 148. It contains one town, RAYACHOTI (population, 7, 123), the head-quarters; and 89 villages. The demand for land revenue and cesses in 1903-4 amounted to Rs. i,63,ooo. Like the other upland taluks, Rayachoti contains a large number of tanks, but few are of any size. In the floods of November, 1903, over one hundred of them were breached. The principal products are rice and cambu, the latter being the staple food-grain. The soils vary considerably, but the red varieties predominate. There is no black cotton soil. The most fertile portion is to the south-east in the neighbourhood of Tsundupalle, where there are a large number of tanks and sonic channels from the Punchu and Bahuda rivers. There are four rivers in the tdluk-