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VALVE
Valve (Radhanagari T. 16° 25' N; 74° 05' E; p. 4,225), also known as Kasaba Valve is a large village on the right bank of the Dudhaganga about fifteen miles south of Kolhapur. Of objects of interest Valve has the mansion or vada of the dumaledar or part-owner of the village, a square building of mud and sun-burnt bricks about 210 feet long and 110 broad. Valve has also an old mosque about eighteen feet long, fourteen broad and fifteen high, there is also a tomb dedicated to a member of the Ghatge family. At this tomb, from the dark 8th to the dark 10th of Magh or January-February a fair used to be held till 1953, which was attended by about 7,000 people.
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