Mangdari is a village in

Velhe Taluka Velhe taluka (''Vēlhē tālukā''), is a taluka in Haveli subdivision of Pune district of state of Maharashtra in India. See also *Mangdari vagdara * Talukas in Pune district A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit o ...

in the

Pune District Pune district (Marathi pronunciation: Help:IPA/Marathi, uɳeː is the most populous district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The district's population was 9,429,408 in the 2011 census, making it the fourth most populous district amongst I ...

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Geography

Mangdari is located at . It has an average elevation of 549 metres. It belongs to Desh or

Paschim Maharashtra Paschim Maharashtra (), also known as Desh, is the region that is Pune Division. Paschim Maharashtra is a prosperous belt and is famous for its Sugar production factories. Farmer in the region are economically well off due to fertile land, goo ...

region. It belongs to the

Pune Division Pune division (better known as Paschim Maharashtra or Desh) is one of the six administrative divisions of the Indian State of Maharashtra. Pune Division is bound by Konkan Division to the west, Nashik Division to the north, Aurangabad Division ...

. It is located 32 km towards South from district headquarters

Pune Pune (; ; also known as Poona, (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million ...

. 18 km from

Velhe Velhe taluka (''Vēlhē tālukā''), is a taluka in Haveli subdivision of Pune district of state of Maharashtra in India. See also *Mangdari Mangdari is a village in Velhe Taluka in the Pune District of Maharashtra, India. Geography Mangdar ...

. 148 km from state capital

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. The total geographical area of village is 245 hectares.

Demographics

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is the local language of Mangdari. The total population is 622 and number of houses are 116. Female population is 48.7%. Village literacy rate is 74.9% and the female literacy rate is 32.5%.

History

The village was originally part of the

Bhor State Bhor State was one of the 9-gun salute Maratha princely states of British India. It was the only state belonging to the Poona Agency under the Bombay Presidency, which became later part of the Deccan States Agency. Along with Akkalkot State, A ...

, under the rule of the Pantsachiv Kings. In the 1590s, majority of the land in the village was given to the

Agashe Agashe ( mr, आगाशे; IAST: ''Āgāśe'') is a surname used by Chitpavan Brahmins of the Kaushik gotra in the Marathi-populated Deccan in India and by the Chitpavan Brahmin diaspora across the globe. People *Ashutosh Agashe (born 1972), a ...

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'', as

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s to the Pantsachiv rulers, as they were occupied as the ''savkars'' (money lenders/bankers) under the Pantsachiv Kings of the Kingdom.

References

{{Pune district topics , state=collapsed Villages in Pune district