Tadpatri Taluk
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, units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts.Many units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.
Tadpatri Taluk
North-eastern Taluk of Anantapur District, Madras, lying between 14° 32' and 15° ii' N. and 77° 45' and 78° 9' E., with an area of 641 square miles. The population in 1901 was 109,421, compared with 112,656 in 1S91. The decrease is due to repeated visitations of cholera during the decade. There are 93 vil- lages and two towns in the taluk : Tadpatri (population, 10,859), on the Penner river, the head-quarters ; and Yadiki (7,389), where there is a deputy-tahsildar. The demand for land revenue and cesses amounted in 1903-4 to Rs. 2,28,000. The country is flat, except on the eastern boundary, where the low range of the Errakonda Hills separates it from Cuddapah and Kurnool, and on the western frontier, where another range divides it from the rest of the District. The Penner flows through the centre of the central plain thus formed, and on either side of it stretch wide sheets of black cotton soil, the most fertile in the District. There is hardly any red earth in the taluk. Cotton is the principal crop ; a fine kind of cholam is also grown.
