Imperial Gazetteer of India (Volume 23) (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1908. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... TASHKURGHAN 253 somewhat above the District average. The demand for land revenue in 1903-4 was 1-6 lakhs, and for cesses Rs. 13,000. The south-east is interspersed with many patches of Sangli and Miraj States. The whole of the taluka is rather low, especially the land near the meeting of the Yerla and the Kistna. The northern and eastern portions are rocky and barren, crossed by ranges of low hills which branch from the Khanapur plateau. The west and south-west on and near the great rivers form a continuation of the rich plain of the eastern Valva, and like it are well wooded wjth mango and babul. The only important rivers are the Kistna, forming the western boundary, and the Yerla, which enters the taluka from the north. Near the Kistna and Yerla the soil is rich black; towards the north-east it is rocky and barren. The annual rainfall at Tasgaon town averages 25 inches. It is slighter and more variable in the east of the taluka. Tasgaon Town.--Head-quarters of the taluka of the same name in Sa&ra District, Bombay, situated in 17 2' N. and 74 36' E., on the Southern Mahratta Railway. Population (1901), 10,975. The town stands on rising ground, on the north bank of a stream which flows into the Yerla about 4 miles to the south-west. It was originally surrounded by walls, now ruined, and was entered by four gates. Within stands the mansion of the Patvardhan family, likewise enclosed by walls and three fortified gates, of which the northernmost was blocked up in 1799 on the death of Parasu Rama Bhau, the greatest of the Patvardhans. A fine temple of Ganpati, about a century old, stands at a little distance from the mansion. The municipality, constituted in 1867, had an average income during the decade ending 1901 of Rs. 7,800. In 1903-4 the income was Rs. ...