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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.

[edit] Talegaon

Town in the Chandur taluk of Amraoti District, Berar, situated in 20° 41' N. and 78° 8' E. Population (1901), 6,220. It was formerly the head-quarters of the present Chandur taluk, but the tahsildar's courthouse was removed to Chandur on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. The town is known, to distinguish it from other towns and villages of the same name, as Talegaon-Dashasahasra (vulgo, Dashasar), or ' Talegaon of the ten thousand.' The story goes that the wife of the jagirdar and the wife of a wealthy merchant entered into competition in the weekly market for a fine pumpkin. The contest between wealth and dignity ended in the vegetable being knocked down to the merchant's wife for ten thousand rupees. But a more credible legend connects the epithet with the former population of the town.