Sittwe. — Arakanese name of the Akyab District and Town,
Burma.
Sivaganga Estate. — A permanently settled zamlndari estate in the
Ramnad subdivision of Madura District, Madras, lying between 9 30'
and io° 17' N. and 78 5' and 78 58' E., with an area of 1,680 square
miles. Population (1901), 394,206. The peshkash payable by the
zamlndar to Government (including cesses) amounts to 3 lakhs. For-
merly the estate was part of the neighbouring zamlndari of Ramnad,
the territory of the chief called Setupati, or ' lord of the causeway '
leading to the sacred temple of Rameswaram ; but about 1730 one of
these Setupatis was forced to surrender two-fifths of his possessions
to the poligdr of Nalkottai, who thenceforth became independent and
was known as the Lesser Maravan, Maravan being the caste to which
both he and the Setupati belonged. During the latter part of the
eighteenth century the rulers of Sivaganga were involved in the strug-
gles of greater powers. In 1773 the country was reduced by the
British, the Raja was killed at Kaliyarkovil, and his widow was forced
to flee to Dindigul, where she remained under the protection of Haidar
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