Shreepur is a village in
Malshiras Taluka in the
Solapur District of
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 ...
,
India.
Geography
Shreepur is located at . It has an average elevation of 493 metres. It comes under
Mahalung Panchayath. It belongs to
Desh or
Paschim Maharashtra region. It belongs to
Pune Division. It is located 104 km towards west from District headquarters
Solapur. 18 km from
Malshiras. 315 km from State capital
Mumbai.
Demographics
Marathi is the local Language of Shreepur.
BJP and
NCP
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Science and medicine
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are the major political parties in this area.
History
The present day 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 ...
, and called Mahalung. In 1935,
Chandrashekhar Agashe
Chandrashekhar Govind Agashe ( mr, चंद्रशेखर आगाशे; IAST: Candraśekhara Āgāśe; 14 February 1888 — 9 June 1956) was an Indian industrialist and lawyer, best remembered as the founder of the Brihan Maharashtra S ...
started employing farmers in the village for the
Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd. He began construction for the first factory in April 1938, and finally established the syndicate's first sugar cane processing factory in the village in March 1939, selling the sugar under the trademark ''Shree'', the
village panchayat of Mahalung changed the village's official name to Shreepur.
See also
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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 ...
References
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Villages in Solapur district