hobli

{{Short description|Cluster of adjoining villages}}

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A hobli, nad or mágani is a cluster of adjoining villages administered together for tax and land tenure purposes in the states of Karnataka India.{{Cite book|author=Mandelbaum, David Goodman|year=1970|title=Society in India: Change and continuity|location=Berkeley, California|publisher=University of California Press|volume=2|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=igfd9YYCqf8C&pg=PA385 385, note 3]|isbn=978-0-520-01634-7}}{{Cite book|last=Rice |first=Benjamin Lewis|year=1897|title=Mysore: Mysore, by districts|edition=revised|series=Mysore: A Gazetteer Compiled for Government, volume 2|location=Westminster, England|publisher=A. Constable|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=x7QLAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA555 555]|oclc=5035047}} This clustering of villages was formed mainly to streamline the collection of taxes and maintenance of land records by the revenue department of the state.{{Cite book|editor=Grover, Verinder |editor2=Arora, Ranjana|year=1996|title=Encyclopaedia of India and her states: Indian federalism and centre-state relations|location=New Delhi|publisher=Deep & Deep|volume=3|page=340|isbn=978-81-7100-722-6}}{{Cite book|author=Kulkarni, Krishnarao Ramrao|year=1962|title=Theory and practice of co-operation in India and abroad|location=Bombay|publisher=Co-operators' Book Depot|volume=3|page=274|oclc=13909924}} Each hobli consists of several villages and several hoblis together form a taluk. Hobli are further subdivided into revenue-circles or revenue blocks known as firka or phut mágani.{{harv|Rice|1897|page=548}}