Nasirabad Town

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Nasirabad Town, 1908

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.

Town in the Jalgaon taluka of East Khan- desh District, Bombay, situated in 21° N. and 75° 40' E., 2 miles south of Bhadli on the north-eastern line of the Great Indian Peninsula Rail- way. Population (1901), 12,176. The town is noted for the manu- facture of glass bangles by Musalmans. There are several old mosques in the neighbourhood. Jalgaon, the head-quarters of the taluka, lies about 6 miles to the west. Nasirabad was several times harried by the Bhils of the Satmala range before the occupation of the country by the British. In 1801 it was plundered by a freebooter named Juba, and again, just before the great famine of 1803, by one of the Peshwa's deputies. After this the village wall was built by one of the Purandhare family, to whom the town was given in grant. The town contains a cotton-ginning and pressing factory, and six schools, with 773 pupils, of which two, with 92 pupils, are for girls.