Narayanpet Town

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Narayanpet Town, 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.

Town in the Makhtal taluk of Mahbubnagar District, Hyderabad State, situated in 16° 45" N. and 77° 30' IC., 36 miles west of Mahbubnagar town. Population (1901), 12,011. It is noted for the manufacture of superior silk and cotton saris, and slippers of coloured leather, which are largely exported. It is the head-quarters of the Second Talukdar, and has a Munsifs court, a post ofifice, a dispensary, a boys' and a girls' school with 319 and 36 pupils respectively, and the Police inspectors office. It is a flourish- ing commercial centre, connected with Saidapur station on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway by a feeder road 21 miles long.