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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 20, p. 75.

PA.TTtTKKOT.Tr1I TOWN 75 is the Hindri, which rises near Maddikera and drains nearly two-thirds of it. Pattikonda was part of Bellary District till 1858. It was then called Panchapalaiyam, or the `land of the five poligars.' Almost every village contains a ruined fort. The rainfall is 23 inches, about two-thirds of which is received during the south-west monsoon. The taluk is almost entirely `dry,' there being only 34,925 acres of ° wet' cultivation supplied by petty tanks and wells. The prevailing soil is black cotton soil, but the southern portion is gravelly and hilly. The tWuk contains 112 square miles of I reserved' forests, almost the whole of which lies on the Erramalas in the southern and south-eastern portions. Pattikonda Village.-Head-quarters of the taluk of the same name in Kurnool District, Madras, situated in 15° 24' N. and 77° 31' E. The. population in 19o1 was 4,373, and it is a Union under the Madras Local Boards Act V of 1884. It consists of two portions: the old pettah, and the new Munro's pettah which is named after Sir Thomas Munro, Governor of Madras, who died here of cholera on July 6, 1827, when on tour. To his memory Govern- ment constructed a fine stone-faced reservoir, built a mantapam, or porch, close by, and planted round it a grove of tamarind-trees. The grove and well are maintained by the Ramallakota taluk board. A weekly market is held in front of the grove. Pattukkottai Taluk.-Southern subdivision and taluk of Tanjore District, Madras, bordering on Palk Strait, and lying between 9° 49' and 10° 35' N. and 78° 55' and 79 32' E., with an area of 9o6 square miles. The population in 1901 was 295,894, compared with 271,626 in 1891, showing an increase in the decade of nearly 9 per cent., due to the influx of labourers for the extension of the District board railway recently under construction. PATTUKKOTTAi TOWN, the head-quarters, has a population Of 7,504, and ADIKAMPATNAM, a small port, 10,494. The number of villages is 792. The demand for land revenue and cesses in 1903-4 amounted to Rs. 2,97,000. In several ways it forms a striking contrast to the other tdluks of the District, since practically no part of it is within reach of the Cauvery. The greater portion is ' dry' land, the small `wet' area within it being watered by tanks and wells; and the soil is nearly all of a red ferruginous variety which forms arable land of inferior quality. Four-fifths of the total area is either zamindari or indm, a further point of contrast to the rest of the District; but in the remainder the percentage of unoccupied land is higher, and the incidence of the assessment per head and the rent of the average holding are lower, than in any other taluk. Pattuk- kottai is the most backward tract in Tanjore in point of education, and, though the largest of the tdluks, is the least densely peopled. Pattukkkottai Town.-Head-quarters of the taluk of the same VOL. XX.