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SALSETTE (=" sixty-six villages ")

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 87 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SAC-SAR
SALSETTE (=" sixty-six villages ") , a large
island
  in British India, N. of Bombay city, forming part of Thana
district
 . Area, 246 sq. m. It is connected with Bombay
Island
  and also with the mainland by
bridge
  and causeway. Salsette is a beautiful, well-wooded
tract
 , its surface being diversified by hills and mountains, some of considerable height, while it is
rich
  in
rice
  fields. In various parts of the island are ruins of Portuguese churches, convents and villas; while the cave temples of Kanheri form a subject of
interest
 . There are 109 Buddhist caves, which date from the end of the 2nd century A.D., but are not so interesting as those of Ajanta, Ellora and Karli. Salsette is crossed by two lines of railway, which have encouraged the building of villa residences by the wealthier merchants of Bombay. The population in Igor was 146,933. The island was taken from the Portuguese by the Mahrattas in 1739, and from them by the British in 1774; it was formally annexed to the
East
  India Company's dominions in 1782 by the treaty of Salbai.
There is another Salsette in the Portuguese
settlement
  of Goa, a
district
  with a population (1900) of 113,061.


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