Sangli State
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Sangli State was one of the 11-gun salute Maratha princely states of British India. It was under the Kolhapur-Deccan Residency in the Bombay Presidency, and later the Deccan States Agency.
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Sangli State | |||||||||
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State Within the Maratha Confederacy (1782 - 1818) Princely State of British India | |||||||||
1782–1948 | |||||||||
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Sangli State in the Imperial Gazetteer of India | |||||||||
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• 1901 | 2,880 km2 (1,110 sq mi) | ||||||||
Population | |||||||||
• 1901 | 137,268 | ||||||||
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• Established | 1782 | ||||||||
1948 | |||||||||
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Today part of | Maharashtra, India |
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The Principality of Sangli covered an area of 2,880 square kilometers and had a population of 226,128 in 1901, while the population of the town itself was 16,829 in that year.
The capital of the state was Sangli.[1] The city derives its name from "Saha Galli" ("Six Lanes" in Marathi).