JALGAON TALUKA
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(population, 16,x59), the head-quarters, and NASIRABAD (11,176) ;
and 89 villages. The population in 19-1 was 85,151, compared
'with 83,981 in 1871. The density, 169 persons to the square mile,
1 much above the District average. The demand for land revenue
1. rgo3-4 was s 8 Iakhs, and for cesses Rs. ,S,ooo. Jàlgaon is a 'rich
black plain to the north, and hilly or undulating to the south. The
climate is generally healthy.
Jalgaon Town (2).-Head-quarters of East Khandesh District,
Bombay, and of the talk. of the same name, situated in 21° 1′ N. and
75° 35′ E, on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, 161 miles north
east of Bombay. Population 16,159. Situated in the centre of
rich cotton-growing District, Jilgao s n the nineteenth century to
the position of an important mercantile e- During the American
Civil War (,861-5) it was the great cotton mart of Khandesh. It
suffered severely from. the fall in .value at the close of the war, but
its trade has recovered. The chief anides of commerce are cotmn,
linseed, and eesamum. In 1903. there were 6 cotton-presses, 1 large
cot-ginning factories, and one cotton-spinning and w ring mill,
all worked by steam. In the same year the number of looms was
415 and of spindles 2-,948, while the out-turn amounted to. a million
pounds of yam and ,} million pounds of cloth. The town has been
greatly improved. A new suburb, Pollen -path, has been built, and a
marketplace laid out. The municipality has made a garden on the site
of part of the old cotton market. One of the most striking of many
.handsome . buildings n the n suburb is a three-smmyed dwelling
built by the pbtelor headman of PAH. Water is carried through
on pipes from the Mehmn lake, 1 miles distant. A metalled road
connetts Jalgaon and Neri, 14. miles. distant, 14 miles beyond which
are the celebrated Ajanta. ca The municipality was created in
,864. The municipal inc me during the decade ending r9-1 sveraged
Rs. 37,000. In 1903-4 the nature, was Rs. 41,00-. The town con-
tains a Subordinate judge's court, a. dispensary, and sis - schools,
with 574 pupils, of which one, with 63 pupils; is for girls. A location
of the American Alliance Mission has recently been established
here
Jalia Amaraji.--Petty State in KaTHrnwnR, Bombay.
Jalia Devani.-Petty State in KATHIAWIR, Bombay.
Jalia Manaji--Petty State in KnTHl1wnx,, Bombay.
]alna Hills--Range of hills in Hyderabad State, running east-
ward from DaulaUbad in Aurangabad District. Close to the border
of Sera, it is joined by s spur of hills from Jalna in the south,.hom
which the range derives its n After entering Built: it merges
into the Sahyadriparvat or $ATM LA range. The Jam, Hills are about
z,4oo feet high, -one of the peaks, DaulsObad, being 3,ozs feet
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