Talegaon-Dabhade
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.
Talegaon-Dabhade
Town in the Maval taluka of Poena District, Bombay, situated in 18° 43' N. and 73° 41' E., 20 miles north-west of Poona city, on the south-east branch of the Clreat Indian Peninsula Railway. Population (1901), 5,238. Talegaon takes its second name from the family of Dabhade, its hereditary pdtels, who played a fore- most part in the Maratha conquest of Gujarat during the first part of the eighteenth century. The most distinguished member, Khande Rao Dabhade, was appointed Senapati, or commander-in-chief, in 1716. The present representative ranks as a first-class Sardar in the Deccan. Talegaon was the farthest point reached by the British force sent from Bombay in 1779 to restore Raghunath Rao to Poona as Peshwa. Finding the town burnt before them and being surrounded by a Maratha army, they threw their guns into the large tank, retreated by night to Wadgaon, three miles farther west, and there agreed to a humiliating capitulation. In 181 7, five days after the battle of Kirkee, two British officers, brothers of the name of Vaughan, while on their way from Bombay to Poona, were seized and hanged here by the roadside. Their graves are 20 yards off the road. The muni- cipality was established in 1866, and had an average income during the decade ending 1901 of Rs. 7,100. In 1903-4 the income was Rs. 6,800. The large tank to the west of the town provides an ample supply of drinking-water. The town contains a dispensary, three boys' .schools with 190 pupils, and one girls' school with 132. Two schools are maintained by the local branch of the Methodist Episcopal Mission,
['The Bakhar of the Dabhades,' Times of India, February 2, 1907,]
