PLACES OF INTEREST

KHALAPUR.

Kha'la'pur, about six miles south of Karjat, the head-quarters of the Khalapur petty division, had, in 1881, a population of 1191, of whom 1169 were Hindus, 10 Musalmans, and 12 Jews. The town stands on the Panvel and Poona high road eighteen miles south-east of Panvel, six south of Chauk, and five north-west of Khopivli on the Patalganga river, across which a dam has been thrown at a cost of £59 (Rs. 590). There is a Government office, a rest-house, a school house built in 1877 at a cost of £352 (Rs. 3520), and a small pond called Mhasole. It was here that in his retreat from the Bor pass to Panvel, in April 1781, General Goddard was harassed by about 56,000 Marathas. He kept them at bay but lost 466 men, eighteen of whom were officers. [Grant Duff, 446.]