INDAPUR.

Inda'pur, north latitude 18° 8' and east longitude 75° 5', on the Poona-Sholapur road about eighty miles south-east of Poona, is a municipal town, the head-quarters of the Indapur sub-division, with in 1872 a population of 7740 and in 1881 of 4242. The great fall in the population is due to the famine of 1876-77 during which Indapur and the country round suffered severely. Besides the sub-divisional revenue and police offices Indapur has a municipality, dispensary, anglo-vernacular school, travellers' bungalow, a weekly Sunday market, and a considerable manufacture of country cloth. The municipality was established in 1865 and had in 1882-83 an income of £191 (Rs. 1910) and an expenditure of £189 (Rs. 1890). The dispensary was established in 1870 and in 1883 treated six in-patients and 5300 out-patients at a cost of £83 8s. (Rs. 834). A yearly fair is held in November-December in honour of a Musalman saint Chand Khan.

The earliest reference to Indapur is in 1486 when it is mentioned as belonging to the first Bijapur king Yusuf Adil Shah. Zain-ud-din, the commandant of Chakan fort, had revolted and asked the help of Yusuf who sent 6000 horse which he ordered to encamp near the fort of Indapur. [Briggs' Ferishta, II. 530.] About 1640 Indapur with Baramati was included in the territory of Shahaji the father of Shivaji. [Grant Duff's Marathas, 56.] In 1707 Aurangzeb conferred Indapur and Supa on Shahu. [Grant Duff's Marathas, 184.] In a revenue statement of about 1790 Indapur appears as the head of a pargana in the Junnar sarkar with a revenue of £10,890 (Rs. 1,08,900) [Waring's Marathas, 240.]. In 1828 Indapur is noticed as once a place of importance. Its trade was fallen and it had no manufactures but the weaving of coarse cloth for the local markets. [Mr. Pringle in Lithographed Papers, 6-9-28. In 1827 Captain Clunes (Itinerary, 271 notices Indapur as a kasba or market town with 1500 houses, a water-course, and wells.]

INDORI.

Indori in Maval, an alienated village on the left, bank of the Indrayani ten miles east of Khadkala, with in 1881 a population of 990, has a bastioned fort picturesquely placed on a steep bank washed by the Indrayani. The village is held in inam by the Dabhade family of Talegaon.