Chintapalle, Alluri Sitharama Raju District
Chintapalli is a major tourist and historic town and Subdivisions of India, mandal in Alluri Sitharama Raju district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Every year lakhs of tourists from all over the country come here during the winter season. The temperature in this area often falls down to below 8 degrees Celsius. Tourists come here to enjoy the cold winter nights and early morning dews. Daytime can be very warm. Chintapalli is also where the Rampa Rebellion of 1922, Rampa Rebellion, led by Alluri Sitarama Raju against the United Kingdom, British in 1922 got started. Chintapalle Police Station was the first one to be attacked by the Revolutionaries during the freedom struggle. Chintapalli is considered to be the headquarters of the agricultural and commercial crops market. Geography It has an average elevation of 839 meters (2755 feet). It is 132 km from Visakhapatnam and 19 km from Andhra's "Kashmir", Lammasingi (Lambasingi). The highest point in Eastern Gha ...
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States And Territories Of India
India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, with a total of 36 entities. The states and union territories are further subdivided into districts and smaller administrative divisions. History Pre-independence The Indian subcontinent has been ruled by many different ethnic groups throughout its history, each instituting their own policies of administrative division in the region. The British Raj mostly retained the administrative structure of the preceding Mughal Empire. India was divided into provinces (also called Presidencies), directly governed by the British, and princely states, which were nominally controlled by a local prince or raja loyal to the British Empire, which held ''de facto'' sovereignty ( suzerainty) over the princely states. 1947–1950 Between 1947 and 1950 the territories of the princely states were politically integrated into the Indian union. Most were merged into existing provinces; others were organised into ...
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