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KADUR , a See also: district of See also: Mysore See also: state, in See also: southern See also: India, with an See also: area of 2813 sq. m
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Pop
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(1901), 362,752, showing an increase of 9% in the See also: decade
.
The larger portion of the district consists of the Malnad or See also: hill country, which contains some of the wildest
See also: mountain scenery in southern India
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The western frontier is formed by the chain of the Ghats, of which the highest peaks are the Kudremukh (6215 ft.) and the Meruti Gudda (5451 ft.)
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The centre is occupied by the See also: horse-shoe range of the Baba Budans, containing the loftiest mountain in Mysore, Mulaingiri (6317 ft.)
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The See also: Maidan or plain country lying beneath the amphitheatre formed by the Baba Budan hills is a most fertile region, well watered, and with the famous " black See also: cotton See also: soil." The See also: principal See also: rivers are the Tunga and Bhadra, which rise near each other in the Ghats, and unite to See also: form the See also: Tungabhadra, a tributary of the Kistna
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The eastern region is watered by the Vedavati
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At the point where this See also: river leaves the Baba Budan hills it is embanked to form two extensive tanks which irrigate the See also: lower valley
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From all the rivers See also: water is See also: drawn off into irrigation channels by means of anicuts or weirs
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The chief natural See also: wealth of Kadur is in its forests, which contain inexhaustible supplies of the finest See also: timber, especially See also: teak, and also furnish shelter for the See also: coffee plantations
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Iron is found and smelted at the See also: foot of the hills, and See also: corundum exists in certain localities
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See also: Wild beasts and See also: game are numerous, and See also: fish are abundant
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The largest See also: town is Tarikere (pop
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10,164); the headquarters are at Chikmagalur (9515)
.
The See also: staple crop is See also: rice, chiefly grown on the hill slopes, where the natural rainfall is sufficient, or in the river valley, where the See also: fields can be irrigated
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Coffee cultivation is said to have been introduced by a See also: Mahommedan See also: saint, Baba Budan, more than two centuries ago; but it first attracted See also: European capital in 1840
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The district is served by the Southern Mahratta railway
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Malleshwara, situated at a distance of 3 km from kadur is the abode of Mother Swarnaambaa. Very kind and powerful goddess and this is believed to be a place of Goddess shakthi.
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