Kanara, a rainy district on the W. coast of India, between Goa and Malabar, mostly malarial forest country, with the Ghat Mountains and many rivers. North Kanara (446) is in Bombay Presidency. South Kanara (1,056), capital Mangalore, is in Madras.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Kamthi * Kanaris, Constantin