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Namakkal Taluk, 1908

Taluk in Salem District, Madras, lying between 11° 1' and 11° 25' N. and 77° 51 and 78° 30" E., with an area of 715 square miles. It is the most southerly taluk of the District and lies lower than the others, forming a wide plain broken on the north and east by the great range of the Kollaimalais. 1'he Cauvery skirts it and encircles a small tract of country, which, with its flourishing groves of plantains, betel-vines, and coco-nut palms, its sugar-cane and green expanses of rice, rivals in richness the delta of Tanjore. The population in 1901 was 313,895, compared with 300,047 in 189 1. There are 356 villages and two towns, Namakkal (population, 6,843) ^"d Sendamangaf-am (13,584). The demand for land revenue and cesses in 1903-4 was Rs. 4,47,000.

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.