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Manmād.--Town in the Chāndor tdluka of Nāsik District, 13ombay,
situated in 20° 15' N. and 74° 26' E., on the north-eastern line of the
Great Indian Peninsula Railway. Population (r90r), 7,113. Manmād
is the junction of the Dhond-Manmād State Railway with the Great
Indian Peninsula Railway, and also the starting-point of a metre-gauge
railway to Hyderābād. Much cotton from Khandesh and Malegaon
is carried by rail here. A remarkable pyramidal hill near Manmād,
about 750 feet high, is notable for a tall, obelisk-like rock on its
summit, at least 6o feet high, known locally as Rdm-gulhni. At the
back of this hill are the peaks known as Ankai and Tankai. The
town contains an English school and two dispensaries, one of which
is maintained by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway.
Mannārgudi Subdivision. -Subdivision of Tanjore District,
Madras, consisting of the tdluks of MANNARGUI>I and TIRUTTtJR-
AIPPiNDI.
Mannārgudi Taluk.-Central tdluk of Tanjore District, Madras,
lying between 10° 26' and TOO 48' N. and 79° r9' and 79° 38' E., with
an area of 301 square miles. The population in 19or was 188,107 ;
and this has remained practically stationary since 1891, when it was
188,112. It contains 193 villages, besides the municipal town of
MANNARGUDI (population, 20,449), the head-quarters. The demand
for land revenue and cesses in 1903-4 amounted to Rs. 6,28,000.
The south-western part of the hiluk is unirrigated, while the remainder
lies within the Cauvery delta, though it contains no alluvial soil.
Mannārgudi Town (also called Manndrkovil or Rdjd Manndr-
kovil).--Head-quarters of the Idluk of the same name in Tanjore
District, Madras, situated in 10 4o' N. and 79° 27' E., on the bank
of the Pamaniyār river, 9 miles south of the railway station of Nidą-
mangalam. The population in rgor was 20,449, of whom 651 were
Musalmans, 540 Christians, and 153 Jains, the rest being Hindus.
This is one of the centres of the Wesleyan Mission, which maintains
a second-grade college, called the Findlay College, affiliated to the
Madras University in 1898. The average attendance in the advanced
classes during 1903-4 was 58, and in the lower classes 533. In
addition, a high school is maintained by private agency. Mannargudi
was constituted a municipality in 1866. The receipts and expenditure
during the ten years ending 1902-3 averaged Rs. 27,ooo, and in
1903-4 amounted to Rs. 29,ooo. The chief sources of income are
tolls, and house and land taxes. A channel from the Vadavar, about
1.2 miles long, supplies twenty-two tanks in the town with good water..
Mannārgudi is noted for the manufacture of metal ware and cloths,
and exports rice in large quantities. Of the many temples in the town,
the most important is that to Rājagopālaswami, which was founded by
Kulottunga Chola I in the eleventh century. Two other shrines bear
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