Tirukkoyilur Taluk, 1908

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Tirukkoyilur 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.

Central inland taluk of South Arcot Dis- trict, Madras, lying between 11° 38' and 12° 5' N. and 79° 4' and 79° 31' E., with an area of 584 square miles. The population in 1901 was 285,068, compared with 261,026 in 1891. It contains 350 villages and one town, Tirukkoyilur (population, 8,617), the head-quarters of the subdivision and of the taluk. The demand for land revenue and cesses in 1903-4 amounted to Rs. 5,84,000. Two of the chief rivers of the District, the Ponnaiyar and the Gadilam, cross the taluk ; and on the former, 3 miles below Tirukkoyilur, a dam has been constructed for irrigation which feeds some important channels. In the west the taluk is diversified by a few stony granite hills and ridges, but the rest consists of a featureless plain of alluvial soil sloping gradually down to the sea.