Rayachoti Taluk, 1908
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.
Rayachoti Taluk
Central taluk of Cuddapah District, Madras, lying between 13 50' and 14 20' N. and 78 25' and 79 10' E., with an area of 998 square miles. It is flanked on the east by the Palkonda Hills, which separate this tract from the lower country. The popula- tion in 1901 was 113,912, compared with 113,236 in 1891; and the density was 114 persons per square mile, compared with the District aveiage of 148. It contains one town, RAYACHOTI (population, 7,123), the head-quarters ; and 89 villages. The demand for land revenue and cesses in 1903-4 amounted to Rs. 1,63,000 Like the other upland taluks, Rayachoti contains a large number of tanks, but few are of any size. In the floods of November, 1903, over one hunared of them were breached. The principal products are rice and cambu^ the latter being the staple food-grain.
The soils vary considerably, but the red varieties predominate. There is no black cotton soil. The most fertile portion is to the south-east in the neighbourhood of Tsundupalle, where there are a large number of tanks and some channels from the Punchu and Bahuda rivers. There are four rivers m the taluk the Papaghni, which flows through a small part of the western portion, the Manda\i, the Bahuda, and the Chitleru All of them are affluents of the Cheyyeru, and none is perennial or of any size. The Papaghni runs in a rocky channel with a very lapid stream . The Mandavi, on the banks of which the town of Rayachoti is situated, usually consists of a nanow stieam of watei tackling thiough a wide sandy bed.
