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MADHAVNAGAR
Madhavnagar, with 5,811 inhabitants in 1961, is a small but well-planned town in Miraj taluka 4.82 km (three miles) north of Sangli. It is a railway station on the Poona-Miraj section of the South-Central Railway and is also connected with Sangli by a fine tar road. The town owes much to Madhavrav Patvardhan of the Patvardhan family and who was the collateral of the Miraj Raja and the chief of Budhganv. He established Madhavnagar, which prior to 1935 had but a railway station and a few old and decrepit houses scattered here and there. The town derives its name from the founder. Today Madhavnagar is inhabited by many a well-to-do and prosperous merchant and trader. Besides the usual educational institutions, there is a police station and a post and telegraph office.
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