Sinnar 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.
Sinnar Town
Head-quarters of the taluka of the same name in Nasik District, Bombay, situated in 19° 50' N. and 74° E., on the Nasik and Poona road. Population (1901), 7,230. It has been a municipal town since 1860, with an average income during the decade ending 1901 of Rs. 7,000. In 1903-4 the income was Rs. 8,000. A large portion of the land around the town is irrigated, producing rich crops of sugar-cane, plantains, betel-leaf, and rice. Except 200 cotton and 50 silk looms, chiefly for weaving robes or saris, there is no trade or manufacture. Sinnar is said to have been founded about seven hundred years ago by a Gauli Raja, whose son, Rao Govind, built the handsome temple of Gondeshwar or Govind- eshwar outside the town, at a cost of 2 lakhs. It is the largest and best- preserved Hemadpanti temple in the Deccan. The town was at one time the head-quarters of the local government under the Mughal emperors. The earliest historical mention of Sinnar appears to be as Sindiner in a copperplate of 1069. Sinnar is almost invariably called Sindar by the peasantry. On the north-west of the town is an inter- esting and exquisitely carved little temple of Aieshwara in Chalukyan style. The town contains a Subordinate Judge's court, an English school, and a dispensary.
