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SHOLAPUR

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 995 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SHOLAPUR , a See also:

city and See also:district of See also:British See also:India, in the Central See also:division of Bombay. The city is 164 m. S.E. from See also:Poona by See also:rail. Municipal See also:area, about 8 sq. m.; pop. (Igor) 75,288. Since 1877 it has ceased to be a military See also:cantonment. Its See also:great fort, of See also:Mahommedan construction, See also:dates from the 14th to 17th centuries. The large See also:bazaar is divided into seven sections, one of which is used on each See also:day of the See also:week. There are two municipal gardens, with See also:fine tanks and temples. It is an import-See also:ant centre of See also:trade, with three See also:cotton See also:mills. The DISTRICT OF SHOLAPUR has an area of 4541 sq. m. Except in Karmala and See also:Barsi subdivisions, in the See also:north and See also:east, where there is a See also:good See also:deal of hilly ground, the district is generally See also:flat or undulating; but it is See also:bare of vegetation, and presents every-where a See also:bleak treeless See also:appearance.

The See also:

chief See also:rivers are the See also:Bhima and its tributaries—the See also:Man, the Nira and the Sinaall flowing towards the See also:south-east. Lying in a See also:tract of uncertain rainfall, Sholapur is peculiarly liable to seasons of scarcity; much, however, has been done by the opening of canals and tanks, such as the Ekruk and Ashti tanks, to secure a better See also:water-See also:supply, the Ekruk tank near Sholapur city is the second largest See also:irrigation See also:work in the See also:Deccan. In Igor the See also:population was 720,977, showing a decrease of 4% in the See also:decade. The See also:principal crops are See also:millet, See also:pulse, oil seeds and cotton. There are manufactures of See also:silk and cotton See also:cloth, and blankets. The chief trading mart is Barsi. See also:Pandharpur is a popular See also:place of See also:pilgrimage. The Great See also:Indian See also:Peninsula railway runs through the district, with a junction for the See also:Southern Mahratta railway, and another junction for the Barsi See also:light railway, recently extended to Pandharpur. Sholapur passed from the Bahmani to the See also:Bijapur See also:kings and from them to the See also:Mahrattas. In 1818, on the fall of the See also:peshwa, it was ceded to the British, when it formed See also:part of the Poona collectorate, but in 1838 it was made a See also:separate district.

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