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KHAMGAON

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 770 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KHAMGAON  , a See also:

town of See also:India, in the See also:Buldana See also:district of See also:Berar,, 34o M . N.E. of Bombay . Pop . (1901), 18,341 . It is an important centre of the See also:cotton See also:trade . The cotton See also:market, the second in the See also:province, was established about 182o . Khamgaon was connected in 187o with the See also:Great See also:Indian See also:Peninsula railway by a See also:short See also:branch See also:line .

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Industrial area of Khamgaon is having some good companies, Hindustan Lever Ltd, Vardhan Syntex. The only plant for Pears Soap is also included.
at present Pop is about 300000, is the largest city in buldhana dist., well connected by road and rail with major cities like pune, nasik, amravati, nagpur, mumbai, aurangabad..., it is fafous for Silver and cotten...it is just 17 kms away from the Shegaon-Gajanan Maharaj Sansthan... major names...Sh sananda, bobde, bhide, munshi, bhadang, dofe, bhalerao, rathi, parekh, jain, anekar, kulkarni, deshpande, etc...
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