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PUDUKKOTTAI

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 633 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PUDUKKOTTAI , a See also:

state of See also:southern See also:India, in subordination to See also:Madras, lying between the See also:British districts of See also:Tanjore and See also:Madura. See also:Area, 11oo sq. m. Pop. (1901), 380,440, showing an increase of 2% in the See also:decade. The state consists mainly of an undulating See also:plain, nowhere of See also:great fertility and in many parts barren; it is interspersed with rocky hills, especially in the See also:south-See also:west. See also:Granite and See also:laterite are quarried, red ochre is worked, and See also:silk and See also:cotton fabrics, See also:bell-See also:metal vessels and perfumes are among the See also:principal manufactures. There is also some export See also:trade in groundnuts and tanning bark. The See also:chief, whose See also:title is tondaman, is of the Kallan or robber See also:caste. His ancestors received a See also:grant of territory for loyal services to the British during the See also:wars in the Carnatic at the end of the ,8th See also:century. Estimated See also:gross See also:revenue, £8o,000; no See also:tribute. The state has for some years past been well administered under a See also:council, with a representative See also:assembly. The See also:town of Pudukkottai had a See also:population in 1901 of 20,347.

It is well laid out, and contains several See also:

fine new buildings.

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