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SALSETTE (=" sixty-six villages ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 87 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SALSETTE (=" sixty-six villages ") , a large See also:island in See also:British See also:India, N. of Bombay See also:city, forming See also:part of See also:Thana See also:district. See also:Area, 246 sq. m. It is connected with Bombay Island and also with the mainland by See also:bridge and See also:causeway. Salsette is a beautiful, well-wooded See also:tract, its See also:surface being diversified by hills and mountains, some of considerable height, while it is See also:rich in See also:rice See also:fields. In various parts of the island are ruins of Portuguese churches, convents and villas; while the See also:cave temples of Kanheri See also:form a subject of See also:interest. There are 109 Buddhist caves, which date from the end of the 2nd See also:century A.D., but are not so interesting as those of See also:Ajanta, See also:Ellora and See also:Karli. Salsette is crossed by two lines of railway, which have encouraged the See also:building of See also:villa residences by the wealthier merchants of Bombay. The See also:population in Igor was 146,933. The island was taken from the Portuguese by the See also:Mahrattas in 1739, and from them by the British in 1774; it was formally annexed to the See also:East India See also:Company's dominions in 1782 by the treaty of Salbai. There is another Salsette in the Portuguese See also:settlement of See also:Goa, a district with a population (1900) of 113,061.

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