Sakoli

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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.

Sakoli

Southern tahsil of Bhandara District, Central Provinces, lying between 20 41' and 21 if N. and 79 43' and 80 34' E., with an area of 1,549 square miles. The population in 1901 was 167,395, compared with 178,984 in 1891 The density is ro8 persons per square mile. The tahsil contains 557 inhabited villages. The head- quarters are at Sakoli, a village of 2,019 inhabitants, 24 miles from Bhandara town by road. Excluding 240 square miles of Government forest, only 32 per cent of the available area is occupied for cultivation. The demand for land revenue in 1903-4 was Rs. 1,25,000, and for cesses Rs. 12,000. The tahsil includes 17 zamlnddri estates with a total area of 710 square miles, of which 406 consist of forest. It is a rice-growing tract broken up by small ranges of hills, and contains the large irrigation tanks for which Bhandara is noted, The culti- vated area in 1903-4 was 356 square miles, of which 53 were irrigated.