Badvel Taluk, 1908

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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, units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts.Many units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Badvel Taluk, 1908

North-eastern taluk of Cuddapah District, Madras, lying between 14 37' and 15 14' N. and 78 45' and 79 n' E., with an area of 755 square miles. The population in 1901 was 88,361, compared with 93,152 in 1891, the decrease being greater than in any other taluk in the District. The density is 118 persons per square mile, compared with the District average of 148. It contains two towns, Badvel (population, 10,883), tne head-quarters, and Poruma- milla (5,522); and in villages. The demand for land revenue and cesses amounted in 1903-4 to Rs. 1,70,000. The annual rainfall is exactly equal to the District average of 28 inches. More than one- third consists of ' reserved ' forests, the best being on the spurs of the Nallamalais which run down into the north-western portion of it.

The chief product is indigo. The taluk suffers from deficient water- supply ; it possesses two of the finest tanks in the District — at Badvcl and Porumamilla — but has only one river, the Sagileru. The Sagileru irrigation project, which was completed in 1898-9, consists of a. dam across the river and a channel 10 miles long supplying a chain of tanks. It has proved successful, as all the land suitable for cultivation and commanded by it has been readily taken up.