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Madras District Gazetteers Cuddapah

1915

The Cheyyer rises within the Chittoor district under the name of the Bahudanadi and after being fed by several smaller streams the principal of which is the Pinchanadi flows through the Seshachalam hills and the rich valley which once formed the petty chiefship of Chitvel and falls into the Penner not far from the eastern limit of the district. [...] The monotonous contour of their hills of insignificant proportions lends but little distintion to the dead level of the intervening plains of black cotton soil while the intractable nature of the rocks and the incesant depredations of mankind have thwarted the efforts of nature to cover their nakedness. [...] In addition to the great Cuddapah plain and these minor basins there is a further series of long but narrow valleys lying to the eastward of the Nallamalais and their extension southwards in the Badvel and eastern Cheyycr country which in its turn is closed into the east by the long range of the Veligondas a portion of the true eastern ghats and the boundary between this and the Nellore distric [...] rates and sandstones which are very well represented in the famous Tirupati hills and on the summit of Nagari Nose in North Arcot.' On these quartzites lies the great slate series so well represented to the south of Vontimitta and out of The wonderfully picturesque amphitheatre of cliffs and the narrow rift in these called the Pedda Gandhi to the south of Cuddapah have been cut out in the neat [...] but this might be met by damming up some of the streams which are full enough during the rains ; and indeed the other obstacles in the way of opening out the mines such as the unhealthiness of the place the poorness of junglegrowth fo meet the requirements in the way of fuel and the scarcity of labour might all be met to some extent by care and good management.
government politics public policy
Pages
280
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-xiii C.F Brackenbury view
Chapter I. Physical Description
1-23 C.F Brackenbury view
Chapter II. Political History
24-51 C.F Brackenbury view
Chapter III. The People
52-71 C.F Brackenbury view
Chapter IV. Agriculture and Irrigation
72-91 C.F Brackenbury view
Chapter V. Forests
92-107 C.F Brackenbury view
Chapter VI. Occupation and Trade
108-117 C.F Brackenbury view
Chapter VII. Means of Communication
118-124 C.F Brackenbury view
Chapter VIII. Rainfall and Seasons
125-138 C.F Brackenbury view
Chapter IX. Public Health
139-142 C.F Brackenbury view
Chapter X. Education
143-145 C.F Brackenbury view
Chapter XI. Land Revenue Administration
146-160 C.F Brackenbury view
Chapter XII. Salt Abkari and Miscellaneous Revenue
161-165 C.F Brackenbury view
Chapter XIII. Administration of Justice
166-173 C.F Brackenbury view
Chapter XIV. Local Self-Government
174-176 C.F Brackenbury view
Chapter XV. Gazetteer
177-248 C.F Brackenbury view
Index
249-265 C.F Brackenbury view