MYSORE

[s. 537] : A large and important native state in South India. Its territory is entirely surrounded by the British dominions belonging to the presidency of Madras. It lies at the point where the ranges of the Western and Eastern Ghats come together, and most of its territory is on the elevated plateau lying between these ranges. Its limits of north latitude are 11° 40’ and 15°, and of east longitude 74° 40’ and 78° 30’. The area is 29,444 square miles, and the population, 5,539,399, according to the census of 1901. Its surface is much broken by rocky hills and ravines; the drainage of the country is almost wholly to the east; in the northwest one river falls in a fine cascade over the precipitous wall of the Western Ghats, and seeks the Indian Ocean. Otherwise the streams all reach the Bay of Bengal through the Tungabhadra on the north, the Music and Mi ions Nablna mi ionary labor. The first Protestant mi ion in Mysore was that of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, established at Bangalore in 1817. In 1820 the London Mi ionary Society planted a station at the same city. The Hindu govfrnment seems to have been unfriendly to the work of the mi ionaries, and opportunities for preaching in Kanarese the vernacular of the peopl” were at first greatly curtailed by this fact. The first few years of the mi ion were not prosperous, but since its earlier difficulties have oeen overcome, it has had a career of much succe . The Wesley ans also entered Mysore, planting their principal station in the city of that name; shortly after the London Society entered Bangalore. Both these mi ions have now many sta- — tions throughout the state. 537