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CUDDAPAH

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CUDDAPAH , a See also:

town and See also:district of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Madras See also:Presidency. The town is 6 m. from the right See also:bank of the See also:river See also:Pennar, and 161 m. by See also:rail from Madras. Pop. (19o1) 16,432. It is now a poor See also:place, but has some See also:trade in See also:cotton and See also:indigo, and manufactures of cotton See also:cloth. Hills surround it on three sides, and it has a See also:bad reputation for unhealthiness. The DISTRICT OF CUDDAPAH has an See also:area of 8723 sq. m. It is in shape an irregular parallelogram, divided into two nearly equal parts by the range of the Eastern See also:Ghats, which intersects it throughout its entire length. The two tracts thus formed possess totally different features. The first, which constitutes the See also:north, See also:east and See also:south-east of the district, is a See also:low-lying See also:plain; while the other, which comprises the See also:southern and south-western portion, forms a high table-See also:land from 1500 to 2500 ft. above See also:sea-level. The See also:chief river is the Pennar, which enters the district from See also:Bellary on the See also:west, and flows eastwards into See also:Nellore. Though a large and broad river, and in the rains containing a See also:great See also:volume of See also:water, in the hot See also:weather months it dwindles down to an inconsiderable stream.

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principal tributaries are the Kundaur, Saglair, Cheyair, and Papagni See also:rivers. One of the most interesting antiquities in the district is the See also:ancient fort of Gurramkonda. The fort is supposed to have been built by the See also:Golconda sultans; it stands on a See also:hill Soo ft. high, three sides of which consist of almost perpendicular precipices. According to a See also:local See also:legend the name Gurramkonda, meaning " See also:horse hill," was derived from the fact that a horse was supposed to be See also:guardian of the fort and that the place was impregnable so See also:long as the horse remained there. The See also:story goes that a Mahratta chief at length succeeded in scaling the precipice and in carrying off the horse, and although the thief was captured before reaching the See also:base of the hill, the spell was broken and the fort, when next attacked, See also:fell. The See also:population of the district in 1901 was 1,291,267. The principal crops are See also:millet, See also:rice, other See also:food grains, See also:pulse, oil-seeds, cotton and indigo. The two last are largely exported. There are several See also:steam factories for pressing cotton, and indigo vats. The district is served by lines of the Madras and the South See also:Indian See also:railways.

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