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KOLABA (or COLABA)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 887 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KOLABA (or COLABA) , a See also:district of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:southern See also:division of Bombay. See also:Area, 2131 sq. m.; pop. (1901), 605,566, showing an increase of 2 % in the See also:decade. The See also:head-quarters are at Alibagh. Lying between the Western See also:Ghats and the See also:sea, Kolaba district abounds in hills, some being spurs See also:running at right angles to the See also:main range, while others are isolated peaks or lofty detached ridges. The sea frontage, of about 20 m., is throughout the greater See also:part of its length fringed by a See also:belt of coco-See also:nut and betel-nut palms. Behind this belt lies a stretch of See also:flat See also:country devoted to See also:rice cultivation. In many places along the See also:banks of the See also:salt-See also:water creeks there are extensive tracts of salt marshland, some of them reclaimed, some still subject to tidal inundation, and others set apart for the manufacture of salt. The district is traversed by a few small streams. Tidal inlets, of which the See also:principal are the Nagothna on the See also:north, the Roha or Chaul in the See also:west, and the Bankot See also:creek in the See also:south, run inland for 30 or 40 m., forming highways for a brisk See also:trade in rice, salt, firewood, and dried See also:fish. Near the See also:coast especially, the district is well supplied with reservoirs. The Western Ghats have two remarkable peaks—See also:Raigarh, where See also:Sivaji built his See also:capital, and Miradongar.

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teak and See also:black See also:wood forests, the value of which is increased by their proximity to Bombay. The See also:Great See also:Indian See also:Peninsula railway crosses part of the district, and communication with Bombay is maintained by a See also:steam See also:ferry. Owing to its nearness to that See also:city, the district has suffered severely from See also:plague. Kolaba district takes its name from a little See also:island off Alibagh, which was one of the strongholds of Angria, the Mahratta pirate of the 18th See also:century. The same island has given its name to Kolaba Point, the See also:spur of Bombay Island running south that protects the entrance to the See also:harbour. On Kolaba Point are the See also:terminus of the Bombay & See also:Baroda railway, See also:barracks for a See also:European See also:regiment, lunatic See also:asylum and See also:observatory.

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