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 GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE DISTRICT, ne

vegetable productions, These are exported by sea or by the navi- gable canals to Cocanada, Rajahinundry, Ellore, and other parts of the District for local consumption. The out-turn of the harvest and the value of the same ean be approximately stated as follows :— Out-tum in Garces, Value in Rupees,

Paddy a. - 9186 459,300 Dry grains. 2 ‘ 2660 106,490 Cocoa-nuts. < . 1000 60,000 Betelnuts. 1000 36,000

Nearly half of the macy meal grain, and one-third of the vego tables grown, is consumed within the Taluk, and the rest is exported to the other towns in the District. This Taluk imports no articles from other localities, salt excepted.

4 Taxcxu TaLux,

The Taluk of Tanuku is composed of 180 villages, both Govern- ment and Zemindari, 88 being Government villages, 65 Zemindari villages, and 27 Shrétriyam Agraldrams.

Tt is situated in the south of the District, and is bounded on the north by the Ellore and Yarnagidem Taluks, on the south hy the Narasipuram and the Bhimavaram Taluks, on the east by the Vasishta branch of the Godavery and the Amalipuram Taluk, and on the west by the Koléru (Colair) lake and the Taluk of Ellore,

The estimated area of this Taluk is 866 square mile. The population is 167,491 souls, of whom 164,705 are Hindus, 2637 Mohammedans, and 1oo Christians. According to the quinquennial returns of 1866-67 the population was 152,052, so that the subse- quent increase has been 15,439. There are 33,719 houses in tho Taluk, of which 33,655 ate inhabited. Tho revenue of the Taluk for Fasli 1282, including assessment, water tax, the permanently- settled Bériz, and other miscellaneous items, is 614,234 rupees, as particularised below.

Rupees, Land assessment. s = ‘i 155,802 Water cess : 292,192 Permanently-settled Bériz and Sinémiyan J ba. 127,810

Other miscellaneous items. Z. 38,430

614,234 �