Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Volume 10Government Central Press, 1880 |
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acres Anjanvel annas assessment average Bánda Bánkot Belgaum betelnuts Bhandáris Bijapur Bombay Bráhmans British cent cess Chapter VIII Chapter XIV chief Chiplun Civil Forts coast cocoanut Collector creek crops cultivators Dábhol Dápoli Deccan Deccan trap Devgad Dhangars dhárekaris district Dunlop feet garden Government grain Harnai head-quarters hereditary hill Hindus inland Jerd Jervis Khed Khem khot khot's khoti Kolhapur Konkan Kudál Kunbis labour land revenue laterite Lingayats List of Civil males Málvan Maráthás Mhárs miles miscellaneous Musalmáns náchni Nairne's Konkan native officers pass peasant holders peasant-held Peshwa Phond Savant Places of Interest population Portuguese Rájápur Ratnagiri rent rice lands river road rock Sahyadri Sahyadri range Sangameshvar Sávant Sávantvádi schists settlement shers Sindhudurg souls species square miles sub-division survey Suvarndurg temple tenants town trade trees Vádi Vánis Vengurla Vijaydurg village walls yearly yields
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Page 481 - BOOK CARD DO NOT REMOVE A Charge will be mode if this card is mutilated or not returned with the book GRADUATE LIBRARY THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ANN ARBOR. MICHIGAN GL DO NOT REMOVE OR...
Page 106 - ... the Presidency making and saving money. Though their great numbers keep the bulk of the people very poor, the teeming population of Ratnagiri has been one of the chief factors in the development of the city of Bombay. Connected with it by a short and easy land journey and by a safe and cheap sea voyage, Ratnagiri is, much more than the districts round Bombay, the supplier of its labour market. It is estimated that in addition to many thousands partly settled in Bombay, over one hundred thousand...
Page 1 - In many of them there are springs of the finest water, and in all a supply can be secured in tanks, or reservoirs, during the periodical rains from May to October. Throughout that period of the year it is scarcely possible for troops to act in the Ghaut-Mahta; as, superadded to the steep, rugged, rocky hills, and the deep, winding dells, covered like the mountains by high trees, or tangled...
Page 434 - Sawantwari was the highway of a great traffic between the coast and the interior, but during the loth and i7th centuries trade suffered much from the rivalry of the Portuguese, and in the disturbances of the i8th century it almost entirely disappeared. In consequence of piracy, the whole coast-line (including the port of Vengurla) was ceded to the British in 1812.
Page 132 - Among all the kiags there was no one so partial to Arabs as the Balhara, and his subjects followed his example.3 Early in the tenth century, Arabs are mentioned as settled in large numbers in the Konkan towns, married to the women of the country, and living under their own laws and religion.4 During the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries, when the lands of Ratnagiri formed part of the possessions of the...
Page 333 - Shivaji more than any of its rulers attached importance to hill forts. Every pass was commanded by forts, and in the closer defiles, every steep and overhanging rock was held as a station from which to roll great masses of stones, a most effectual annoyance to the labouring march of 'cavalry, elephants, and carriages. It is said that he left 350 of these posts in the* Konkan alone. Orme's Hist. Frag. 93. One distinguishing mark of forts built or rebuilt by Shivaji is, inside the main gate, a small...
Page 43 - ... and arrows. In order to approach within range, they are* obliged to have recourse to stratagem, as the monkeys at once recognise them in their ordinary costume. The ruse usually adopted is for one of the best shots to put on a woman's robe, sari, under the ample folds of which he conceals his murderous weapons. Approaching the tree on which tht?
Page 464 - Regiment NI, advancing against Manohar, attacked, and after a severe contest drove the enemy from a strongly stockaded post on Targol hill. After this defeat the insurgents abandoned the fort and it was taken (27th January) by General Delamotte. When the rebellion was quelled the fortress and its revenues were made over to Vadi.
Page 342 - rail pattern " with thin uprights.1 At the foot of the hill, under some trees, are three fallen dagobas, which must have stood close to where they now lie. K61, — a small village across the Savitri, south-east from Mhar. In a hill behind it are two small groups of caves — the first to the north-east of the village consists of a few dilapidated cells ; the other to the south-east contains one cell larger than any of the others, but all are apparently unfinished. In this second group are three...
Page 18 - Sahyadris, and after flowing across a comparatively open trap country, enter the laterite by deep ravines which widen towards the sea, the rivers becoming broad tidal creeks. In these ravines, along the banks of the rivers, are villages with every available spot of their rich alluvial soil, growing rice and other grain.