ges. Only a small part of the state, the climate of which is very
unhealthy, is capable of cultivation; the rest is covered with rocky
hills, forest and brushwood.

DHARMSALA, a hill-station and sanatorium of the Punjab, India, situated
on a spur of the Dhaola Dhar, 16 m. N.E. of Kangra town, at an elevation
of some 6000 ft. Pop. (1901) 6971. The scenery of Dharmsala is of
peculiar grandeur. The spur on which it stands is thickly wooded with
oak and other trees; behind it the pine-clad slopes of the mountain
tower towards the jagged peaks of the higher range, snow-clad for half
the year; while below stretches the luxuriant cultivation of the Kangra
valley. In 1855 Dharmsala was made the headquarters of the Kangra
district of the Punjab in place of Kangra, and became the centre of a
European settlement and cantonment, largely occupied by Gurkha
regiments. The station was destroyed by the earthquake of April 1905, in
which 1625 persons, including 25 Europeans and 112 of the Gurkha
garrison, perished (_Imperial Gazetteer of India_, 1908).

DHARWAR, a town and district of British India, in the southern division
of Bombay. The town has a station on the Southern Mahratta railway. The
population in 1901 was 31,279. It has several ginning factories and a
cotton-mill; two high schools, one maintained by the Government and the
other by the Basel German Mission.

The DISTRICT OF DHARWAR has an area of 4602 sq. m. In the north and
north-east are great plains of black soil, favourable to cotton-growing;
in the south and west are successive ranges of low hills, with flat
fertile valleys between them. The whole district lies high and has no
large rivers.

In 1901 the population was 1,113,298, showing an increase of 6% in the
decade. The most influential classes of the community are Brahmans and
Lingayats. The Lingayats number 436,968, or 46% of the Hindu population;
they worship the symbol of Siva, and males and females both carry this
emblem about their person in a silver case. The principal crops are
millets, pulse and cotton. The centres of the cotton trade are Hubli and
Gadag, junctions on the Southern Mahratta railway, which traverses the
district in several directions.

The early history of the territory comprised within the district of
Dharwar has been to a certain extent reconstructed from the inscription
slabs and memorial stones which abound there. From these it is clear
that the country fell in turn under the sway