Athni Taluka, 1908

Select Language Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bulgarian Bengali Catalan Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician Georgian German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Kannada Khmer Korean Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Maltese Marathi Nepali Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish Tamil Telugu Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh Yiddish

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.

Athni Taluka, 1908

North-eastern taluka of Belgaum District, Bombay, lying between 16 27' and 16 58' N. and 74 40' and 75 25' E., with an area of 816 square miles. It contains one town, Athni (population, 11,107), the head-quarters, and 82 villages, including Kudchi (5,879). The population in 1901 was 113,077, compared with 123,438 in 1891. The density. 139 persons per square mile, is much below the District average. The demand for land revenue in 1903-4 was 2-3 lakhs, and for cesses Rs. 19,000. Most of the lands of Athni are bare and treeless. The taluka is divided by a range of hills into two very similar tracts of level country. The climate is generally dry and healthy, the average rainfall being only 23 inches. The southern portion, which is crossed by the winding Kistna, is an open plain of fine black soil with many small rich villages.