Parola
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.
Parola
Town in the Amalner taluka of East Khandesh Dis- trict, Bombay, situated in 20 53' N. and 75 7' e, 22 miles west of Mhasvad on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. Population (1901), 13,468. Parola has been a municipality since 1864, with an average income during the decade ending 1901 of Rs. 8,700. In 1903-4 the income was Rs. 9,800. It is said to have been raised by its proprietor, Hari Sadashiv Damodar, from the position of a small village of fifty houses to that of a walled town. He is also said to have built, about 1727, the spacious fort, one of the finest architectural remains of the kind in Khandesh.
It must have been at one time a very strong place; it is surrounded by a moat, and the entrance was formerly protected by a drawbridge and large flanking towers. During the Mutiny in 1857, the proprietors proved disloyal, and their estate was confiscated, the town being taken possession of by Government, and the fort dismantled. A considerable trade is carried on in cattle, cotton, lugdas (women's robes), and grain ; and the village of Mhasva, 2 miles distant, is famous for ghi. The town contains two cotton-gins, a cotton-press, a dispensary, and five schools, with 620 pupils, of which one, with 54 pupils, is for girls. Four miles south-west is a handsome temple of Mahadeo on an island in the Bori river.
