Bankapur Town
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, units, and many tahsils upgraded to districts.Many units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.
Bankapur Town
Town in the taluka of the same name in Dharwar District, Bombay, situated in 14 55' N. and 75 16' E. Population (1901), 6,360. It has a ruined fort and two temples. A weekly market is held on Tuesdays, when coarse cloth, blankets, oil, and metal vessels are sold. The earliest mention of Bankapur is in a Kolhapur Jain manuscript dated 89S, where ' the famous city of Bankapur, the greatest among cities,' is described as having been called after himself by the Chellaketan chief Bankeyarasa, the Dharwar underlord of the Rashtra- kuta king Amoghavarsha (851-69). In 107 1 Udayaditya of the Ganga family was reigning at this city. In 1406 it was besieged by the Bahmani Sultan, Flroz Shah, an ancestor of the Nawab of Savanur.
In 1776 it fell to Haidar All. From Maratha records of 1790 Bankapur seems to have been the head-quarters of a sarkar of sixteen parganas. In 1802 it was ceded to the British by the Peshwa under the Treaty of Bassein. It contains a fine Jain temple of Rangaswami, with a number of inscriptions. There are four schools, of which two are for girls.
