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Encyclopedia Britannica



ANANTAPUR

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 913 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ALM-ANC
ANANTAPUR , a town and
district
  of India, in the
Madras
  presidency. The town has a station on the
Madras
  railway, 62 M. S.E. from Bellary. Pop. (1901) 7938.
The
district
  of Anantapur was constituted in 1882 out of the unwieldy district of Bellary. It has an area of 5557 sq. m., and in its northern and central portions is a high
plateau
 , generally undulating, with large granite rocks or low hill ranges rising here and there above its surface. In the southern portion of the district the surface is more hilly, the
plateau
  there rising to 2600 ft. above the sea. There is a remarkable fortress
rock
  at Gooty, 2171 ft. above the sea, and a similar but larger
rock
  at Penukonda, with an
elevation
  equal to that of
Bangalore
 , about 3100 ft. Gooty fortress was a stronghold of the Mahrattas, but was taken from them by Hyder Ali. In 1789 it was ceded by Tippoo to the nizam, and in 1800 the nizam ceded the district of Anantapur with others to the British in payment for a subsidiary British force. The population in 1901 was 788, 254, showing an increase of 8 % in the decade. The principal crops are millet,
rice
 , other food grains,
pulse
 , oil seeds and
cotton
 . There are several steam factories for pressing
cotton
 . Two railways traverse the district.


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