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''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. ''

=Hosur Town=
Headquarters of the subdivision and taluk of the
same name in Salem District, Madras, situated in 12° 44' N. and
77° 50' 1'.. The nearest railway station is Malur on the Bangalore
branch of the Madras Railway, 20^- miles by a g(;od road. It is also
easily accessible from Bangalore, 24 miles distant. Population (1901),
inentioned
frequently in the history of the wars with Tipu Sultan, and sup])()sed
to have been built for Tipu by an English engineer named Hamilton.
He and two other [)risoners were barbarously beheaded on the
a[)proach of Lord Cornwallis's army in 1791. The divisional oflicer's
bungalow, locally called the Castle, was built at great cost l)y a former
Collector, Mr. Brett (1859-62), when Hosur was the head-(|uarters of
the District. It is in the style of an EngUsh mediaeval castle, with
turrets, battlements, a moat, (!^:c. It was purchased by Government in
1875 fo'' ^^- 10,000.

Four miles south of the town, at Mattagiri, is the Hosur Remount
Depot, from which the Ninth Division of the army in India is supplied
with cavalry and artillery horses. This dates from 1828, and is in
charge of a British oiTficer assisted by a subaltern of the Army Veterinary
department. The greater number of the horses are Australians bought
from the importers at Madras. They are acclimatized and broken to
their work at the depot. The place has a wonderfully English appear-
ance, the grassy paddocks being surrounded with post-and-rail fences
and entered by gates of fLimiliar pattern, and much of the work on the
farm is done by horses instead of bullocks.

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