Saidapet taluk

Saidapet
Taluk
Saidapet
Area
 • Total
890 km2 (340 sq mi)
Population
 (1991)
 • Total
1,410,492
 • Density1,600/km2 (4,100/sq mi)
Historical population
YearPop.±%
1951 287,471—    
1961 393,836+37.0%
1971 693,059+76.0%
1981 926,026+33.6%
1991 1,410,492+52.3%
Source: Census of India 1951-1991

Saidapet taluk was a taluk of Chengalpattu district that existed from 1798 to 1997. The headquarters of the taluk was the town of Saidapet. The taluk largely comprised the suburbs of Madras city. Saidapet taluk was surrounded by Ponneri taluk in the north, Tiruvallur taluk in the north-west, Poonamallee taluk in the west, Sriperumbudur taluk to the south-west and Chengalpattu taluk in the south. The Bay of Bengal lay to the east. Saidapet taluk completely surrounded Madras city on all the three sides with the Bay of Bengal on the fourth. When Chengalpattu district was bifurcated into Kanchipuram and Tiruvallur districts in 1997, Saidapet taluk was also bifurcated into Ambattur taluk of Tiruvallur district and the Tambaram taluk of Kanchipuram district. The area of Saidapet taluk was 342 mi2 (890 km2) in 1871.[1]

History

Saidapet was acquired by the East India Company along with the rest of the jaghire of Chingleput in 1780 from the Nawab of the Carnatic accusing the Nawab of maladministration and sub-divided it into sixteen pergannas for revenue administration.[2] In 1794, the district of Chingleput was reorganized and put under the charge of a District Collector stationed at Karunguzhi.[3] Saidapet was made a taluk under the charge of a tahsildar. The Saidapet taluk offices functioned from Saidapet till 1997 eventhough the town of Saidapet itself had been included within Corporation of Madras and Madras district limits in 1946. Saidapet taluk was abolished in 1997 and sub-divided into Ambattur and Tambaram taluks.

Notes

  1. ↑ Crole, Charles Stewart (1879). The Chingleput late Madras District, A Manual Compiled under the Orders of the Madras Government. p. 68.
  2. ↑ Gopalakrishnan, M. (2000). Gazetteers of India Tamil Nadu: Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur Districts. Vol. 2. Government of Tamil Nadu. p. 999.
  3. ↑ Gopalakrishnan, M. (2000). Gazetteers of India Tamil Nadu: Kancheepuram and Tiruvallur Districts. Vol. 2. Government of Tamil Nadu. p. 1001.
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