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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. ''

=Pattikonda Taluk=

(Cotton-hill '). Westernmost taluk of Kurnool
District, Madras, lying between 15 7' and 15 52' N. and 77 21' and
78 i' E., with an area of 1,134 square miles. The population in
1901 was 143,033, compared with 138,703 in 1891. The density is
126 persons per square mile, compared with the District average of
115 and the Presidency average of 270. The taluk was the worst
sufferer in the District in the great famine of 1876-8, when it lost
about 60 per cent, of its inhabitants. It contains 104 villages, includ-
ing five ' whole inams; but no town. PATTIKONDA, PYAPALLI, Kodu-
mur, and Maddikera are places of some importance, the first being the
head-quarters. The demand for land revenue and cesses in 1903-4
amounted to Rs. 3,20,000. The Tungabhadra forms the northern boun-
dary, separating it from the Nizam's Dominions. The only other river
is the Hindri, which rises near Maddikera and drains nearly two-thirds
of it. Pattikonda was part of Bellary District till 1858. It was then
called Panchapalaiyam, or the 'land of the five poligars; Almost
every village contains a ruined fort. The rainfall is 23 inches, about
two-thirds of which is received during the south-west monsoon. The
taluk is almost entirely 'dry; there being only 34,925 acres of 'wet'
cultivation supplied by petty tanks and wells. The prevailing soil is
black cotton soil, but the southern portion is gravelly and hilly. The
taluk contains 112 square miles of ' reserved ' forests, almost the whole
of which lies on the Erramalas in the southern and south-eastern
portions.

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