CHITALDROOG, a district and town in the native state of Mysore, India. The district has an area of 4,022 sq.m. and a population (1931) of 656,569. The rainfall is low, and the Veda vati or Hagari river, in whose valley the town lies, is mostly dry in the hot season. Several parallel chains of hills, reaching an extreme height of 3,80o ft., cross the district ; otherwise it is a plain. The chief crops are cotton and rice, and manganese is worked. The west of the district is served by the Madras and Southern Mahratta railway. The largest town in the district is Davangere with cotton factories and a trade in cotton and grain. The town of Chitaldroog, which is the district headquarters (pop.
1931, 10,732) has a considerable trade in cotton. It possesses massive fortifications erected under Hyder Ali and Tippoo Sahib towards the close of the 18th century; and near it on the west are remains of a city of the 2nd century A.D. It is the terminus of a railway from Chikjajur.