HOOKERY, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bejapoor. It is now greatly reduced, being a poor town, but still exhibits the remains of the magnificence which it formerly possessed when it was under the Mahomedan government. The last of the Mogul sovereigns died in 1643. It is fifty-five miles south-south-west from Merritch. Long. 74. 47. E. Lat. 16. 13. N.