Tinnevelly Taluk
Tinnevelly 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, units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts.Many units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.
Taluk in the centre of the District of the
same name, Madras, lying between 8° 36' and 8° 57' N. and 77° 34'
and 77° 51' E., with an area of 328 square miles. The population
in igor was 194,647, compared with 184,728 in 1891. The demand
for land revenue and cesses in 1903-4 amounted to Rs. 3,81,000.
The taluk is the most densely populated in the District, having nearly
600 persons per square mile. It contains 123 villages, besides the
two municipal towns of Tinnevelly (population, 40,469), the head-
quarters, and Palamcottah (39,545), situated on opposite banks of the
Tambraparni river. It consists, as respects soil and general features,
of two distinct portions : namely, the valleys of the Tambraparni and
Chittar, and the high ' dry ' land which lies between these rivers and on
either side of them. Its ' wet ' land is supplied by means of five chan-
nels, the Kodagan, Palayan, Tinnevelly, Marudur East, and Marudur
West channels, leading from dams across the former of these streams.
About fifteen other channels are supplied by the Chittar. The soil of
the ' dry ' land is of the red and sandy series, and generally poor.
