Tirumakudal-Narsipur
Tirumakudal-Narsipur, 1908
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.
Central taluk of Mysore District, Mysore State, lying between 12° 6' and 12° 26' N. and 76° 47' and 77° 8' E., with an area of 225 square miles. The population in 1901 was 87,680, compared with 83,454 in 1891. The taluk contains four towns, Bannur (population, 5,119), Talakad (3,857), Tirumakudal-Narsipur (2,406), the head-quarters, and Sosale (1,989); and 125 villages. The land revenue demand in 1903-4 was Rs. 1,47,000. The Cauvery flows through the td/uk from north-west to south-east, receiving in the centre the Kabbani from the west. An unbroken belt of ' wet ' cultivation lies on both sides of the Cauvery, which is here a wide shallow river with sandy bed. Black soil abounds along its banks and in the low- lands, but in the uplands to the west the soil is very poor. Much of the rice land is indm, or revenue free. There are a few isolated rocky hills
