Shrigonda Taluka, 1908
Shrigonda Taluka
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.
Southern taluka of Ahmadnagar District, Bombay, lying between 18 27' and 18 54' N. and 74 23' and 74 56' E., with an area of 615 square miles. It contains one town, SHRI- GONDA (population, 5,415), the head-quarters; and 83 villages. The population in 1901 was 61,240, compared with 66,658 in 1891. The density, 100 persons per square mile, is much below the District average. The demand for land revenue in 1903-4 was 1.4 lakhs, and for cesses Rs. 10,000. The greater part of the taluka lies in the valley of the Bhima, and has a gentle slope from the north-east towards that river on the south and its tributary the Ghod on the south-west. For the most part it is a level plain, with an average elevation of 1,900 feet above sea- level, skirted on the north-east by a chain of low hills with flat summits, or pathars^ which have a uniform elevation of about 2,500 feet. Towards the hills the soil is generally of a very poor description. That of the centre of the taluka is tolerably fertile ; but in the neighbourhood of the Bhima deep clayey soils prevail which require much labour in their cultivation, and only yield good crops in years of plentiful rainfall. The old trunk road from Ahmadnagar enters the taluka on the north at the fifteenth mile from Ahmadnagar city and runs south. The Dhond- Manmad Railway completely traverses the taluka from north to south.
