North Arcot

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North Arcot
District of the Madras Presidency
1855–1989
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Location of North Arcot district at the time of the formation of Madras State in 1956
Capital	Chittoor (1855 - 1911), Tiruvannamalai (1911-1913), Vellore (1913-1989)
Area
• 1901	19,129.7 km2 (7,386.0 sq mi)
Population
• 1901	2,207,712
History
• Annexation of the Arcot State	1855
• Separation of the Chittoor district	1911
• Bifurcated into the districts of Tiruvannamalai and Vellore	1989
Preceded by Succeeded by Nawab of the Carnatic Tiruvannamalai district Vellore district
The Imperial Gazetteer of India, Vol. 5

North Arcot was a former

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History

Historically, the name "Arcot" is said to be derived from a

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The district was also famous for its missionary, the Arcot Mission of the Reformed Church.

Under the British Raj

During the

. The region of Arcot under the control of the Mughal regime in India was under the jagir or fiefdom of the Subah of Arcot. The famous Palar river intersects the region and the portion of Arcot to the north of the Palar came to be known as North Arcot. It is described as an inland district on the eastern side of the Madras Presidency, lying between 12 degrees 20 mins and 13 degrees and 55 mins North and 78 degrees and 14 mins and 79 degrees and 59 minutes E, with an area of 7,386 square miles (19,130 km²).

On the north the district is separated from Cuddapah by a portion of the Eastern Ghats and locally known as the Tirupati Hills, form the town of that name which lies at their foot. The range is broken by a long valley running northwards into the Cuddapah District. Advantage has been taken of this gap by the north-west line of the

zamindari overlooking the railway line. From all the hill ranges, numerous small boulder-covered spurs branch off towards the center of the district and combine to render it one of the most varied and picturesque areas in the region.

None of the hills is particularly lofty, the general elevation of the Eastern Ghats and the Javadis being about 2,500 and 3,000 feet (910 m) respectively. The highest peak is Avalapalle Drug (3,829 feet) in the Punganuru Zamindari. Carnatikgarh (3,124 feet) in the Polur taluk and Kailasagarh (2,743) feet in Vellore, both on the Javadis, are other peaks of importance. Each has a small bungalow on its summit which forms a pleasant retreat in the hot season. Except the Javadis, the hills are generally uninhabited.

The chief rivers of the district are the Palar and its tributaries, the Cheyyar and the Poini. Except for a few days, the beds of these are dry, sandy wastes. The Cheyyar river rises in the Javadis. It first flows southwards into the South Arcot District, then bending to the east and north-east and enters the southern taluks of North Arcot, flows eastward across them and finally joins the Palar river near Walajabad in Chingleput District.

See also

• Arcot
• South Arcot

References

Sources

• Imperial Gazetteer of India
  , Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1908-1931 [v. 1, 1909]
• Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 5, p. 404.

External links

• The extent of North Arcot marked on OpenStreetMap: Chittoor district, Vellore district, Tiruvannamalai district

12°30′N 79°00′E / 12.500°N 79.000°E / 12.500; 79.000