GOOTY, a town and hill fortress of southern India, in the Anantapur district of Madras, 48 m. E. of Bellary, with a station on the Madras and Southern Mahratta railway. Pop. (1931) 9,712. The town is surrounded by a circle of rocky hills, connected by a wall. On the highest stands the citadel, 2,100 ft. above sea level. Here was the stronghold of Morari Rao Ghorpade, a famous Mahratta warrior and ally of the English, who was ultimately starved into surrender by Hyder Ali in