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HUBLI , a See also: town of See also: British See also: India, in the See also: Dharwar See also: district of Bombay, 15 M
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S.E. of Dharwar town
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Pop
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(1901) 60,214
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It is a railway junction on the See also: Southern Mahratta See also: system, where the lines to See also: Bangalore and See also: Bezwada branch off See also: south and west
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It is an important centre of See also: trade and of See also: cotton and See also: silk See also: weaving, and has two cotton mills and several factories for ginning and pressing cotton
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Hubli was in early times the seat of an See also: English factory, which, with the rest of the town, was plundered in 1673 by See also: Sivaji, the Mahratta See also: leader
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