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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 12, p. 345.

GUDALUR TALUK 345 height. Up to and including 1905-6 the total cost on original works has been i1 .6 lakhs (exclusive of the 1•7 lakhs spent on the new King wah Canal), and on repairs and establishment 23-4 lakhs. The average area irrigated during the five years ending 1905-6 was 277 square miles. The canals are remarkable as being constructed and maintained on the co-operative system without any direct aid from Government, except a small grant towards the cost of establishment in Fazilka which has been stopped since the last settlement (1902). The excavation work was performed by the agriculturists whose lands the canal was to benefit, supervised by the ordinary revenue staff of the District. Since 1881 the special establishment required for their upkeep has been met by a charge of 3 to 4 annas per ghumao (five-sixths of an acre) ; and the annual silt clearance and other works have been carried out at the expense of the irrigators at the average rate of 8 to io annas per irri- gated g-humao. In addition to these charges for maintenance, a royalty of 12 annas per ghumao of superior, and 6 annas per ghumao of inferior, crops is taken by Government. Gubbi Taluk.-Central tdluk of Tumkūr District, Mysore, lying between 13° 2′ and 13° 36′ N. and 76° 42′ and 77° 0′ E., with an area of 552 square miles. The population in igoi was 87,468, compared with 73,570 in 1891. The tdluk contains two towns, GUBBI (popula- tion, 5,593), the head-quarters, and Kadaba (1,385) ; and 421 villages. The land revenue demand in 1903-4 was Rs. 1,92,ooo. The Shimsha flows south through the middle of the tciluk, forming the large Kadaba tank. In the north-west are the bare Hagalvadi hills, part of the Chik- nayakanhalli auriferous band. The rest of the hzluk is generally open and well watered. The soil is mostly a red mould, shallow and gravelly. Gubbi Town.-Head-quarters of the tāluk of the same name in Tumkūr District, Mysore, situated in 13° 18′ N. and 76° 57′ E., on the Southern Mahratta Railway, 13 miles west of Tumkūr town. Popula- tion (1901), 5,593 Gubbi is said to have been founded about the fifteenth century by the hereditary chief of the Nonaba Wokkaligas. It is an important trading place, inhabited by Komatis and Lingayat Banajigas. It is the entrepōt of the areca-nut trade between the Nagar Malndd and Waląjapet in North Arcot District. Kopra, or dried coco- nut, and areca-nuts produced in the surrounding country are largely sold at the fair, together with cotton cloths, blankets, grain, and a variety of other articles, even from distant places, for which a ready market is found. The Wesleyan Mission has a station here. The municipality dates from 1871. The receipts and expenditure during the ten years ending 19oī averaged Rs. 2,300. In 1903-4 they were Rs. 3,3oo and Rs. 4,100. Gudalur Taluk.-Western tcrlule of the Nilgiri District, Madras,