Pardi Taluka

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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.

Pardi Taluka

Southernmost taluka of Surat District, Bombay, lying between 2?o 17' and 20 32' N. and 72 50' and 73 degree 7' E., with an area of 163 square miles. It contains one town, PARDI (population, 5,483), the head-quarters; and 81 villages. The population in 190 1 was 61,691, compared with 58,245 in 1891. Land revenue and cesses in 1903-4 amounted to nearly 3/2 lakhs. The taluka adjoins the Portuguese territory of Daman, and is for the most part an undulating plain sloping westwards to the sea. The fields are, as a rule, unenclosed. Pardi is divided into an infertile and a fertile region by the Kolak river. Its climate has a bad reputation. The annual rainfall, averaging 72 inches, is the heaviest in the District.