Pal is a village situated in

Satpura range The Satpura Range is a range of hills in central India. The range rises in eastern Gujarat running east through the border of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh and ends in Chhattisgarh. The range parallels the Vindhya Range to the north, and these ...

on the bank of the Suki River in Raver tehsil in

Jalgaon district Jalgaon (Marathi pronunciation: ͡ʒəɭɡaːʋ is a district in the northern part of Maharashtra, India. The headquarters is the city of Jalgaon. It is bordered by the state of Madhya Pradesh to the north and by the districts of Buldhana to ...

Maharashtra Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...

state of India.

History

Pal was abandoned at the beginning of the eighteenth century. When

British rule The British Raj (; from Hindi ''rāj'': kingdom, realm, state, or empire) was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent; * * it is also called Crown rule in India, * * * * or Direct rule in India, * Quote: "Mill, who was himsel ...

began in

Khandesh Khandesh is a geographic region in Central India, which includes parts of the northwestern portion of Maharashtra as well as Burhanpur District of Madhya Pradesh. The use of Khandeshi Language (a.k.a. the Ahirani Language) is prevalent in ...

in 1817, they found Pal village desolate and infested with wild animals. Subhedar Nimbalkar of

Yawal Yawal is a taluka, city and a municipal council in Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India. Geography Yawal has 1 river with 2 tributaries, (Harita and Sarita a.k.a. Hadkai and Khadkai). In the stream of Suki River Suresh Chopane, Geologist from Chandrap ...

made an offer to British to re-populate the village in return of money, but Captain Briggs refused the offer. Since 1820, many attempts were made to re-populate the Pal village. In 1869–70, C. S. James encouraged some farmers to settle in Pal village and the village was re-settled. In 1880, population of Pal village was 600. Historical records mention existence of fort, Mosque and Hathi (elephant) wada in the Pal village.

Geography

Pal village is located at . It has average elevation of 397 meters from the

sea level Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured. The global MSL is a type of vertical datuma standardised g ...

. Due to its high elevation and isolated nature in Satpura mountains surrounded by forests, Pal is locally known as picnic spot and

hill station A hill station is a town located at a higher elevation than the nearby plain or valley. The term was used mostly in colonial Asia (particularly in India), but also in Africa (albeit rarely), for towns founded by European colonialists as refuges ...

. Forest surrounding Pal village falls under protected area of

Yawal Wildlife Sanctuary Located in the Yawal Tehsil of the Jalgaon district of Maharashtra, India, Yawal Wildlife Sanctuary is spread over an area of approximately covered by dense forest. It is situated at the banks of the Anner and Manjar rivers and at the border ...

, but the village itself falls under the jurisdictional area of the Raver tehsil.

Demographics

As per

2011 Census of India The 2011 Census of India or the 15th Indian Census was conducted in two phases, house listing and population enumeration. The House listing phase began on 1 April 2010 and involved the collection of information about all buildings. Information ...

, Pal village had 1471 households with population of 7041 people, of which 3676 are males while 3365 are females. There were 1047 children between age group 0–6. Average Sex Ratio of Pal village is 915 which is lower than average sex ratio of India 940. Literacy rate of the village was 72.27%, which is lower compared to 82.34% literacy rate of Maharashtra. Male literacy is 79.77% while female literacy rate is 64.03%. 50.46% population of the village is Schedule Tribe (ST) while Schedule Caste (SC) were 1.62% of total population. There were 3081 working people in the village. 358 people were cultivators while 1766 people were agricultural labourers.

References

External links

Villages in Jalgaon district {{Jalgaon-geo-stub