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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]] and [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[India]].<ref name="Mandelbaum">{{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}}</ref><ref name="Rice">{{Cite book|author=Rice, 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}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> Each ''hobli'' consists of several villages and several hoblis together form a ''[[taluk]]''. Hobli are further subdivided into revenue-circles or [[revenue block]]s known as '''firka''' or '''phut mágani'''.<ref name="Rice" /><ref>{{harv|Rice|1897|page=548}}</ref>

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