Badagara

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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.

Badagara

(=' North bank'). — Town in the Kurumbranad taluk of Malabar District, Madras, situated in n° 36' N. and 75 36' E., on the sea-coast at the northern extremity of the Elattilr-Badagara backwater, and on the trunk road and the railway from Calicut to Cannanore. Population (1901), 11,319. The value of the imports by sea in 1903-4 was 9 lakhs ; of the exports, 34 lakhs. The former consist chiefly of rice and salt ; the latter of coco-nuts, copra, pepper, and timber. Badagara is a busy town, and the head-quarters of the taluk and of a sub-magistrate and a District Munsif.