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PLACES OF INTEREST
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NASHIRABAD.
Nashirabad (Jalgaon Taluka; 20° 00' N, 75° 40' E; R. S. Bhadli 1-0; p. 14,709) was at one time a taluka of that name. It stands about six miles east of Jalgaon and two miles south of the Bhadli railway station (Bombay-Itarsi line). It is a centre for the manufacture of glass bangles.
The old fort, which commands a fine view of the country round, has, since the removal of the Mamlatdar's office to Jalgaon, fallen into ruins. There are several old mosques in the neighbourhood.
Nashirabad formally an open village, locally known as Sol-Nimbhora from its having sixteen villages tinder it, was, before the British conquest, several times plundered by the Satamala Bhils. In 1801 it was plundered by a freebooter named Zuba, and again just before the great famine of 1803, by one of the Peshva officers. After this, the village wall was built by one of the Purandares to whom the town was given in grant.
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