Hadagalli

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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, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Hadagalli

Western taluk of Bcllary District, Madras, lying between 14° 46' and 15° 14' N. and 75° 40' and 76° 22' E., south and east of the Tungabhadra, with an area of 585 S([uarc miles. The population in 1901 was 92,094, compared with 104,040 in 1891. There arc 87 villages, but no town. The head-quarters, after which it is named, is a village of no importance. The demand for land revenue and cesses amounted in 1903-4 to Rs. 1,81,000. A tract in the southern corner, comprising nearly one-third of the area, is black cotton soil. Of the remainder, mixed soils occupy about two-thirds and red land one-third.

It is one of the flattest taluks in the District, for its many undulations are of the long and low variety, and only in two places in the south can it be said to be broken by hills. The whole drains ultimately into the Tungabhadra, the eastern half by way of the Chikka Hagari. It is perhaps the healthiest part of the District. The abrupt decline which occurred in the number of its inhabitants between 1891 and 1901 was due to the fact that in the former year the Census fell upon a date on which large crowds of pilgrims from Bombay and Mysore were assembled at the great festival at Mailar, and consequently the population as then enumerated was greatly above the normal. Cholam and korra are the staple crops ; but cotton is raised on a considerable area in the south, and castor also is extensively grown. The large acreage of horse-gram, a crop which will grow on the poorest land with the lightest rainfall, and the fact that the population per acre of cultivated land is lower than in any other tiiluk, show, however, that the land is not fertile.