Kanara

American  

[kuh-nahr-uh, kah-ner-uh] / kəˈnɑr ə, ˈkɑ nər ə /

Or Canara

noun

1. a region in SW India, on the Deccan Plateau. About 60,000 sq. mi. (155,400 sq. km).

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Kanara British  

/ kəˈnɑːrə /

noun

1. a region of SW India, in Karnataka on the Deccan Plateau and the W Coast. Area: about 155 000 sq km (60 000 sq miles)

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Kanara

Mutuswamy was then appointed in succession district munsiff at Tranquebar, deputy-collector in Tanjore in 1859, sub-judge of south Kanara in 1865, and a magistrate of police at Madras in 1868.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

The coffee district comprises the landward slopes of the Western Ghats, from Kanara to Travancore.

From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

This grass is very common in marshes and in wet low-lying places on the hills and occurs also in the plains in Malabar and South Kanara.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari

This great architect, but very mediocre archeologist, proclaimed at the very beginning of his scientific career that "all the cave temples of Kanara, without exception, were built between the fifth and the tenth centuries."

From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

In Kanara 51 bears were killed between 1856 and 1882, so we have a total then of 274 bears for these two districts alone.

From Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore by Robert H. (Robert Henry) Elliot