Kadiri Taluk, 1908

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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.

Kadiri Taluk

Western taluk of Cuddapah District, Madras, lying between 13 degree 47' and 14 degree 31' N. and 77 degree 51' and 78 degree 28' E., with an area of 1,158 square miles. It is very irregular in shape, its extreme length being 45 miles, and its maximum breadth 35 miles. The population in 1901 was 145,503, compared with 134,915 in 1891, the increase during the decade being greater than in any other taluk of the District. The density was 126 persons per square mile, compared with the District average of 148. It contains one town, Kadiri (population, 10,493), the head-quarters ; and 139 villages. The demand for land revenue and cesses in 1903-4 amounted to Rs. 2,07,000. The taluk is very stony and barren, and is cut up by detached rocky hills which are usually destitute of vegetation. During the hot season the ryots entirely depend for water on wells, the rivers and almost all the tanks being quite dry. These wells are constructed at great cost and with considerable labour, the ground below the thin surface soil being often solid rock. The Maduleru, one of the feeders of the Chitravati, rises in the taluk, and the Papaghni passes through its southern and south-eastern portions ; but they are of little use for irrigation. The soil is very poor, being chiefly coarse red earth mixed with disintegrated granite, which is often impregnated with soda and other salts. Black cotton soil is, however, met with in patches here and there. The chief products are horse-gram, cholam , sugar-cane, and cotton. A good deal of jaggery (coarse sugar) is produced. Hematite occurs in small quantities and used to be smelted by the primitive native processes.