Sankeshwar

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This article has been extracted from THE IMPERIAL GAZETTEER OF INDIA , 1908. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

Note: National, provincial and district boundaries have changed considerably since 1908. Typically, old states, ‘divisions’ and districts have been broken into smaller units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.

Sankeshwar

(more correctly Shankheswar^ or ' the conch god '). Village in the Chikodi taluka of Belgaum District, Bombay, situated in 16 15' N. and 74 29' E., 27 miles north-by-west of Belgaum town. Population (1901), 5,639. Sankeshwar has a large traffic in cotton, dry coco-nuts, dates, spices, and curry-stuff. The ordinary industry is the weaving of waist-cloths, women's sans, and blankets.

The village contains an old temple of Shankarling and a monastery, which is the seat of one of the Sankaracharyas of the Smarth sect of Hindus. In 1488 Bahadur Gilani, the Bahmani governor of the Konkan, broke into rebellion and established his head-quarters here, but subsequently submitted to Mahmud II. In 1659 Sankeshwar fell to Sivaji. The town contains a boys' school with 177 pupils and a girls' school with 57.