Koppa
Koppa, 1908
Western taluk of Kadur District, Mysore, including the Yedehalli sub-taluk and the Sringeri jag'ir, and lying between 13 degree15' and 13 degree 46' N. and 75 degree 5' and 75 degree 45' E., with an area of 701 square miles. The population in 1901 was 65,483, compared with 62,343 in 1891. The taluk contains three towns, Sringeri (population, 2,430), Yedehalli (2,266), and Koppa (1,018), the head-quarters; and 427 villages. The land revenue demand in 1903-4 was Rs. 1,85,000. Koppa is bounded on the west by the Western Ghats. The Tunga flows through the west, and the Bhadra forms the eastern boundary. The whole is purely Malnad, full of grand and picturesque scenery. It is a network of lofty hills and sunken valleys, the former densely covered with forests, which shelter a continuous belt of coffee planta- tions, formed by Europeans in the last thirty years, the latter occupied by steeply terraced rice flats and areca gardens. The annual rainfall averages 120 inches. The most open part is the Sringeri valley. Cardamoms are valuable products on the Ghats. There is not much 'dry' cultivation. Rice is the staple 'wet crop,' nourished by the rainfall, and sugar-cane is much grown around Danivasa in the north- east. Conspicuous among the mountains is the superb Merti peak (5,451 feet). The Sringeri math, founded in the eighth century by Sankaracharya, lies in the west, and is the chief seat of the Smarta Brahmans. At Balehalli in the east is one of the principal maths of the Lingayats.
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.
