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Chittoor

Town in southern Rayalaseema. It was the headquarters of the North Arcot district in the 1890s. From 1 April 1911 it was the headquarters of the new Chittoor District, formed from the Telugu taluks of North Arcot and two taluks of the Deccan districts, with Chandragiri, Madanapalle and Chittoor divisions.

In 1895 Stuart’s North Arcot manual described Chittoor as “the head-quarters of the district”.1 It lay some twenty miles east of the Mogili pass, through which the road ran up to Palmaner and Bangalore.1 The same manual described the permanently settled estates of that district, among them the zamindaris (landholders’ estates) of Kalahasti and Karvetinagar.2 See Srikalahasti, Chandragiri and Punganur.

Chittoor District

A statistical appendix for the new district was printed in 1915.3 It says that the district, named after the town, “was formed on 1st April 1911”.3 It had three revenue divisions:3

  • Chandragiri
  • Madanapalle (the Madanapalle and Vayalpad taluks)
  • Chittoor (the Chittoor and Palmaner taluks)3

The census report of 1911 explains that “the then Telugu portion of North Arcot” had “been absorbed in the new district of Chittoor”.45 It adds that the Madanapalle and Vayalpad taluks had been transferred to it from the Deccan division.45 Between 1921 and 1931 its boundary with North Arcot was again adjusted.6 See British Crown (Madras Presidency).

Footnotes

  1. Harold A. Stuart, Madras District Manuals: North Arcot, Vol. I (1895), p. 4 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2

  2. Stuart, North Arcot (1895), p. 174 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩

  3. Madras District Gazetteers: Statistical Appendix for Chittoor District (1915), p. 25, Tables XV–XVI (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  4. Census of India, 1911: Madras, Part I (1912), p. 88 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2

  5. Census of India, 1911, Vol. XII: Madras, Part I, Report (1912), p. 80, note (b) to Table VI (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩ ↩2

  6. Census of India, 1931, Vol. XIV: Madras, Part I, Report (1932), p. 12 (archive.org (opens in a new tab)). ↩

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References

Sources (4)
  1. Arthur F. Cox (comp.), revised by Harold A. Stuart, Madras District Manuals: North Arcot, Vol. I (new edition) (opens in a new tab), Government Press, Madras, 1895, pp. 4, 174. [Public domain]
  2. Madras District Gazetteers: Statistical Appendix for Chittoor District (opens in a new tab), Government Press, Madras, 1915, pp. 25. [Public domain]
  3. J. Chartres Molony, Census of India, 1911, Vol. XII: Madras, Part I, Report (opens in a new tab), Government Press, Madras, 1912, pp. 80, 88. [Public domain]
  4. M. W. M. Yeatts, Census of India, 1931, Vol. XIV: Madras, Part I, Report (opens in a new tab), Government Press, Madras, 1932, pp. 12. [Public domain]

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