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''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. ''

=Kudligi=
Western taluk ot Bellary District, Madas, lying between
14° 11' and 15° 4' X. and 76° 9' and 76° 45' E., with an area of
863 square miles. The population in 1901 was 103,985, compared
with 94,296 in 1 89 1. It contains one town, Kotturu (population,
6,996), and 116 villages. The head-quarters, from which it takes its
name, is a mere village. The demand for land revenue and cesses
in 1903-4 amounted to Rs. 1,48,000. This Taluk is perhaps the most
picturesque portion of the District. Extensive date-palm groves fringe
the streams, it is famous for tamarinds, and the hilly country in the
north is the wildest and most rugged in Bellary. Round Kotturu there
is a little black cotton soil ; but two-thirds of the Taluk consists of very
poor red land, and a fifth is covered with mixed soils. Several places
have a bad name for malaria, and it is more sparsely peopled than
any other Taluk in the District.

It supplies Bellary, Sandur State, and
even parts of Alur, with toddy from date-palms, and exports consider-
able quantities of tamarinds. Kudligi is the poorest tCxluk in the
District. Its soil is the worst in quality, the ' dry ' land paying an
average assessment of only 5 annas per acre and much being rated
at as little as 2 annas ; the land revenue derived, and the incidence
per head of the populalion, are less than anywhere else ; the percentage
of the holdings which pay less than Rs. lo is higher than in any other
taluk; and nearly lo per cent, of them pay one rupee or less. Only
three-fifths of the taluk is arable, the forest area being larger than in
any other ; and of the arable area one-third is waste. One reason for
this large proportion is that much of the waste land is thickly covered
with trees, and the ryots hesitate to pay the considerable sums which
under the ordinary rules would be due for the value of this growth.

Recently, therefore, a system has been sanctioned under which the
ryot may pay the usual tree-tax until the total value of the trees has
been discharged, instead of the whole value at once in one sum. So
far the system has been a success. The forest area in the taluk has
also been added to recently, which will again reduce the proportion of
waste. Even the land that is cultivable is often too poor to stand
continuous cropping ; and the area under cultivation consequently
fluctuates considerably, while a large proportion produces only horse-
gram, a crop that will flourish with little rain on almost any soil.
Kudligi has, however, a larger area served by tanks and wells than any
other taluk. Thus, although it possesses no channels, about 4 per cent.,
quite a high figure for a Bellary taluk., is protected in all seasons.
Moreover, the cattle have ample grazing ground in the numerous forests.
Cholain and korra are, as usual, the staple food-grains, and a larger
area is sown with castor than in any other taluk.

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