Tiruppattur Tahsil, 1908

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Tiruppattur Tahsil, 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.

Zamindari tahsil belonging to the Sivaganga Estate, situated in the northern portion of the Ramnad subdivision, Madura District, Madras. The population in 1901 was 209,036, com- pared with 200,087 in 1891. It contains 366 villages and two towns: Tiruppattur (population, 5,881), the head-quarters and the station of a deputy-tahsildar, and Karaikkudi (11,801). The chief sources of irrigation are the Palar river and rain-fed tanks ; but the tahsil depends in large measure for its food-supply upon the neighbouring taluk of Melur, half of which is supplied with water from the Periyar Project. Among its manufactures may be noted brass vessels and coco-nut fibre. The country is a level plain, broken only by a few hills near Piranmalai and Karisappatti, and the soil is red sand.