Hingoli 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, and many tahsils upgraded to districts. Some units have since been renamed. Therefore, this article is being posted mainly for its historical value.
Hingoli Town
Head-quarters of the tahluk of the same name in Parbhani District, Hyderabad State, situated in 19° 43' N. and 77° 9' E. Population (1901), 17,256, of whom 11,395 Hindus, 5,289 Musal- mans, and 52 Christians. It contains three schools with 230 pupils, of which one is a middle school, and one a girls' school. It is also the head-quarters of the Second Talukdar, and contains a State post office and a British sub-post office, a Munsif's court, a dispensary, two ginning factories, and a cotton-press. It was a cantonment of the Hyderabad Contingent up to 1903. Since the removal of the Contingent, some of the Nizam's troops have been stationed here. Hingoli is a great cotton mart, and is famous as one of the first places in the Deccan at which operations for the suppression of thagi were commenced about 1833. Fourteen miles south-west of Hingoli is the village of Aundah, containing the ruins of an immense temple destroyed by Aurangzeb. The carvings in the basement are of a very elaborate description, resembling those on the temple of Kailas at EUora.
