GADAG, or GARAG  , a town of British India, in the Dharwar district of Bombay, 43 M . E. of Dharwar town . Pop . (1901) 30,652 . It is an important railway junction on the Southern Mahratta system, with a growing trade in raw cotton, and also in the weaving of cotton and silk . There are factories for ginning and pressing cotton, and a spinning mill . The town contains remains of a number of temples, some of which exhibit fine carving, while inscriptions in them indicate the existence of Gadag as early as the loth century .