not only in the Ceded Districts but also in many other districts of the
Madras Presidency.
It is this background of exhorbitant taxation and the cutting down of all
expenses, even on the repair of irrigation sources that largely led to the
conversion of Bellary and Cuddapah into the latter day arid and
impoverished areas. Quite naturally, then, the educational returns from
Bellary were low.
- Hansard: June 22, 1813.
- Minute on Indian Education: March 1835.
- J.S. Mill, History of British India, 1817, vol. I, pp.344, 351-2, 466-7,
472, 646. - Ibid, p.428.
- Revenue Despatch to Madras: 11.2.1801.