Magar Talao, 1908

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Magar Talao

This article is an extract from THE CASTES AND TRIBES OF H. E. H. THE NIZAM'S DOMINIONS BY SYED SIRAJ UL HASSAN Of Merton College, Oxford, Trinity College, Dublin, and Middle Temple, London. One of the Judges of H. E. H. the Nizam's High Court of Judicature : Lately Director of Public Instruction. BOMBAY THE TlMES PRESS 1920 Indpaedia is an archive. It neither agrees nor disagrees with the contents of this article. Secondly, this has been scanned from a book. You can help by sending the corrected version/ additional information to the Facebook page, Indpaedia.com. All information used will be duly acknowledged.

(Crocodile Tank,' also called Magar Pir, or more correctly, Pir Mangho). — Tank, hot springs, and temple in the District and Taluka of Karachi, Sind, Bombay, situated in 24° 58' N. and 67° 5' E., about 9 miles north of Karachi city, among very barren and rocky hills. Formerly there was a swamp here, in which many hundreds of tame crocodiles lived. This swamp has long ceased to be the home of crocodiles, which are now, to the number of about 25, confined in a small pool, surrounded by a masonry wall. They are quite different from the gharidl, or long-snouted kind which abounds in the Indus. The temperature of the water of the hot springs is 133°. The springs are considered by the natives to be efficacious in the cure of every disease, and many bathe daily in the waters. The Hiranand Leper Asylum, which is intended for all those afflicted with skin disease, owes its inception to private enterprise. Picnics are frequently made here by parties from Karachi, when a goat or other animal is bought and sacrificed for the crocodiles. At the present time, a fairly constructed road runs from Karachi to Magar Talao, and thence westerly to the Hab river ; and a rough track also leads north to Shah Bilawal in Las Bela. There is a dharmsala at Magar Talao, as also a small bungalow, erected by a Parsi, where visitors can put up during their stay.