Belur

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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.

Belur

North-western taluk of Hassan District, Mysore, lying between 12" 58" and 13° 19' N. and 75° 44' and 76° 7' E., with an area of 339 square miles. The population in 1901 was 79,192, compared with 75,470 in 1891. The taluk contains one town, Belur (population, 3,862), the head-quarters ; and 410 villages. The land revenue demand in 1903-4 was Rs. 1,81,000. The west is a part of the Malnad, and for a short distance is bounded by the Hemavati river. The Yagachi flows through the centre in a south-easterly direction, being joined in the north by the Berinji-halla. In the forests of the hill country to the west are coffee plantations, while rice is grown in the valleys. In the east are rocky hills, either bare or covered with scrub jungle. The centre is more level, with either gravelly and grassy plains, or stretches of rice land. Some small channels are drawn from the Yagachi and the streams falling into it. The soils are poor in the west but improve eastwards, much of the best description being around Halebid and Belur. In the south-west the high ground, instead of sloping gradually to the lower, drops abruptly in perpendicular scarps 50 to 100 feet high. Good tobacco is grown in the east.