Northern Circars
（重定向自Circars）
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The Northern Circars (also spelt Sarkars) was a former division of British India's Madras Presidency. It consisted of a narrow slip of territory lying along the western side of the Bay of Bengal from 15° 40' to 20° 17' north latitude, in the present-day Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.