Kulittalai
This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS. |
Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.
Kulittalai
Taluk in Trichinopoly District, Madras, lying between 10° 16' and 10° 59' N. and 78° 8' and 78° 43' E., with an area of 901 square miles. The population rose from 243,700 in 1891 to 263,331 in 1901. The tdhik contains 229 villages. The demand for land revenue and cesses in 1903-4 amounted to Rs. 3,73,000. The head-cjuarters are at Kulittalai village. The Amaravati river irrigates a few villages in the north-west corner, and the Cauvery, which forms the northern boundary, waters a narrow strip of land along that side.
This tract is very fertile, but the soil in the remainder of the taluk is generally poor. There are low hills covered with scrub jungle in the south and south-west. Two of the many large bosses of gneiss with which the District is studded are in this taluk ; one of these, called Ratnagiri, is about 5 miles to the south-south-west of Kulittalai village. The southern portion of the taluk, consisting of the Marungapuri and Kadavur zamitiddris and 32 Government villages, comprised the old Manap{)arai taluk, which was transferred from Madura District in 1856.
