Circars, The, a territory in India along the coast of the Bay of Bengal, from 18 to 100 m. wide; ceded first to the French and in 1766 to the East India Company, now of course under the Crown, and forming part of the Madras Presidency.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Cipriani * Circassia