Shirur, Maharashtra
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Shirur is a municipal council
in the Pune district
of the India
n state
of Maharashtra
.
Shirur is located on the boundaries of the Pune and Ahmednagar districts on the banks of the River Ghod. The town is also known as Ghodnadi to distinguish it from similar places with the same name. Ghodnadi means "River Ghod" in the native Marathi language
.
Shirur has an significant historical and cultural reference. Geographically Shirur Tehsil starts south-east, 24 km on the banks of river Bhima
on Pune-Nagar road and ends at 50 km on the same road on the banks of River Ghod.
You can hit upon numerous historical links if you look at geographic surroundings of Shirur. The battle between Marathas and British
at Koregaon-Bhima(Battle of Koregaon
) in 1818, Samadhi of Chattrapati Sambhaji
Maharaj at Vadhu Budruk
, Bajirao’s gift to Mastani
; Kendur, Mastani Palace at Pabal, Santoba’s Kanhur, Geologically important Enamgaon, Netaji Palkar resided Tandali and Mahaganapati’s Ranjangaon
.
In recent years, Shirur has been an imperative educational and commercial hub for Parner
, Shrigonda
and Shirur Talukas. Shirur is gaining a growing importance on Pune-Ahmednagar road for industrialization and trade.
, Shirur had a population of 27,000. Males constitute 52% of the population, and females 48%. Shirur has an average literacy rate of 72%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 77%, and female literacy is 66%. In Shirur, 13% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Shirur taluka constitutes an area of 1,55,811 hectors. Ghod, Bhima
and Kukdi rivers differentiate the taluka from three directions.
s, including caste
s like maratha
, mallav samaj
; other subcastes based on their professions, like "goldsmith","weaver","Maratha Kumbhars" have formed separate colonies bearing their names within Shirur. Other population include Muslim
s, Jains (mostly Marvadis
) of the Shwetambar
sub-community, and a few Christian
s. Marvadis migrated here in the 19th century. During the British Raj
, Shirur had several horse stables around it, and many Muslims were employed there by the British army. One of the stable area has now been taken by the Maharashtra State government as a colony for irrigation employees.
and Sugarcane
. Fruits like Oranges and Sweet lime are also grown.
has a few schools around town. Schools like Vidyadham Prashala and Rayat Shikshan Sanstha, offer education till class 12. There is an Urdu
school in the town as well since Shirur holds quite a large Muslim population. There are English medium school
s in the town; the New English School, run by Rayat Shikshan Sanstha, the Rasiklal Dhariwal School, run by Shirur Shikshan Prasarak Mandal and Jeevan Shikashan Mandir are few of them.
For higher education there are colleges like the C.T. Bora College of Arts, Science and Commerce. A sister concern, MDIMRT, offers degrees like BCS and MCA. Chhatrapti Sambhaji Shikshan Sanstha offers courses like BEd and BPharm at its Sitabai Thite College.
, Dhok Sangvi and Ranjangaon
. The industrial zone is known as MIDC Ranjangaon-Karegaon. Many manufactures have set up facilities here, among them Apollo Tyres
; Whirlpool India, making refrigerators; LG Electronics
, making televisions and mobile handsets; Daewoo
Electronics, making refrigerators; Wheels India
; Bajaj Electricals
; Frito-Lay
of Pepsico
Holdings, manufacturing Lays potato chips; Fiat
automobiles; Kirloskar; Swarovski
; and Ohsung, a Korean company manufacturing electronics parts.
Harita and Harita Fehrer, a TVS Group, company manufacturing seating systems supplied for Tata Motors, John Deere and State transport buses and foam. The company has its own CSR department Srinivasan Services Trust (SST) which works in 24 gram panchayats include 147 villages in Shirur block on education, health, water, infrastructure, environment and infrastructure areas. It has benefited 6658 families in the Shirur block.
Municipal council
A municipal council is the local government of a municipality. Specifically the term can refer to the institutions of various countries that can be translated by this term...
in the Pune district
Pune District
Pune District is situated in Maharashtra state of India. Pune city is the district headquarters. In the last census on 2001, the total population of the district was 7,232,555, making it the fourth most populous district in India . Urban population comprises 58.08% of the total population...
of the India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n state
States and territories of India
India is a federal union of states comprising twenty-eight states and seven union territories. The states and territories are further subdivided into districts and so on.-List of states and territories:...
of Maharashtra
Maharashtra
Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...
.
Shirur is located on the boundaries of the Pune and Ahmednagar districts on the banks of the River Ghod. The town is also known as Ghodnadi to distinguish it from similar places with the same name. Ghodnadi means "River Ghod" in the native Marathi language
Marathi language
Marathi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people of western and central India. It is the official language of the state of Maharashtra. There are over 68 million fluent speakers worldwide. Marathi has the fourth largest number of native speakers in India and is the fifteenth most...
.
Shirur has an significant historical and cultural reference. Geographically Shirur Tehsil starts south-east, 24 km on the banks of river Bhima
Bhima
In the Mahābhārata, Bhima is one of the central characters of Mahabharata and the second of the Pandava brothers...
on Pune-Nagar road and ends at 50 km on the same road on the banks of River Ghod.
You can hit upon numerous historical links if you look at geographic surroundings of Shirur. The battle between Marathas and British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
at Koregaon-Bhima(Battle of Koregaon
Battle of Koregaon
The Battle of Koregaon took place on January 1, 1818, at the bank of the river Bhima in Koregaon, northwest of Pune, India. A small force of 500 men of the 2nd Battalion 1st Regiment of the Bombay Native Light Infantry under the command of Capt. F. F...
) in 1818, Samadhi of Chattrapati Sambhaji
Sambhaji
Sambhaji Raje Bhosle was the eldest son and successor to Emporer Shivaji, the founder of the Maratha empire.- Early life :...
Maharaj at Vadhu Budruk
Vadhu Budruk
Vadhu Budruk is in Shirur Tehsil of the Pune district.The place is connected to Sambhaji Maharaj - the son of Shivaji Maharaj. Sambhaji was killed in Tulapur and his samādhi was built in Vadhu. Thus, both these places are historically very important. Tulapur is situated on the banks of 3 rivers-...
, Bajirao’s gift to Mastani
Mastani
Mastani was the wife of Peshwa Baji Rao I , an Indian general and prime minister to the fourth Maratha Chhatrapati Shahuji. She is said to have been a beautiful and brave woman.-Biography:...
; Kendur, Mastani Palace at Pabal, Santoba’s Kanhur, Geologically important Enamgaon, Netaji Palkar resided Tandali and Mahaganapati’s Ranjangaon
Ranjangaon
Ranjangaon is a village located at a distance of about 50 km from Pune, en route to Shirur in Maharashtra, and it houses a shrine to Mahaganapati....
.
In recent years, Shirur has been an imperative educational and commercial hub for Parner
Parner
Parner , is an historic city in Ahmednagar District, Maharashtra, India. 'Parner' was named after Rishi Parashar, whose son Maharishi Ved Vyas wrote famous epic "Mahabharat". Parner is at height about 600–900 meters from sea Level...
, Shrigonda
Shrigonda
Shrigonda is an old city and a municipal council in Ahmednagar district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The place is described as Santanchi Punyabhumi .- Historical monuments :The place consists of:...
and Shirur Talukas. Shirur is gaining a growing importance on Pune-Ahmednagar road for industrialization and trade.
Demographics
As of the 2001 Indian censusCensus
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...
, Shirur had a population of 27,000. Males constitute 52% of the population, and females 48%. Shirur has an average literacy rate of 72%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 77%, and female literacy is 66%. In Shirur, 13% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Shirur taluka constitutes an area of 1,55,811 hectors. Ghod, Bhima
Bhima
In the Mahābhārata, Bhima is one of the central characters of Mahabharata and the second of the Pandava brothers...
and Kukdi rivers differentiate the taluka from three directions.
Communities
The population consists of a mix of HinduHindu
Hindu refers to an identity associated with the philosophical, religious and cultural systems that are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. As used in the Constitution of India, the word "Hindu" is also attributed to all persons professing any Indian religion...
s, including caste
Caste
Caste is an elaborate and complex social system that combines elements of endogamy, occupation, culture, social class, tribal affiliation and political power. It should not be confused with race or social class, e.g. members of different castes in one society may belong to the same race, as in India...
s like maratha
Maratha
The Maratha are an Indian caste, predominantly in the state of Maharashtra. The term Marāthā has three related usages: within the Marathi speaking region it describes the dominant Maratha caste; outside Maharashtra it can refer to the entire regional population of Marathi-speaking people;...
, mallav samaj
Mallav Samaj
Mallav Samaj is a small community of India which migrated from a part of Rajashtan to Bundelkhand in Madhya Pradesh and are now settled in parts of Maharashtra like Aurangabad, Jalna, Pune and Solapur. The language spoken by the community is Mallav which resembles Hindi....
; other subcastes based on their professions, like "goldsmith","weaver","Maratha Kumbhars" have formed separate colonies bearing their names within Shirur. Other population include Muslim
Muslim
A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...
s, Jains (mostly Marvadis
Marwaris
Marwari or Marwadi or Rajasthani people are Indian ethnic group, that inhabit the Rajasthan region of India. Their language Rajasthani is a part of the western group of Indo-Aryan languages....
) of the Shwetambar
Svetambara
The Śvētāmbara is one of the two main sects of Jainism, the other being the Digambar. Śvētāmbara "white-clad" is a term describing its ascetics' practice of wearing white clothes, which sets it apart from the Digambara "sky-clad" Jainas, whose ascetic practitioners go naked...
sub-community, and a few Christian
Christianity
Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in canonical gospels and other New Testament writings...
s. Marvadis migrated here in the 19th century. During the British Raj
British Raj
British Raj was the British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947; The term can also refer to the period of dominion...
, Shirur had several horse stables around it, and many Muslims were employed there by the British army. One of the stable area has now been taken by the Maharashtra State government as a colony for irrigation employees.
Climate
In Shirur you will find hot temperature and scanty rainfall. The land here is suitable for growing Crops like WheatWheat
Wheat is a cereal grain, originally from the Levant region of the Near East, but now cultivated worldwide. In 2007 world production of wheat was 607 million tons, making it the third most-produced cereal after maize and rice...
and Sugarcane
Sugarcane
Sugarcane refers to any of six to 37 species of tall perennial grasses of the genus Saccharum . Native to the warm temperate to tropical regions of South Asia, they have stout, jointed, fibrous stalks that are rich in sugar, and measure two to six metres tall...
. Fruits like Oranges and Sweet lime are also grown.
Education
There are schools teaching in the native Marathi language. The municipal councilMunicipal council
A municipal council is the local government of a municipality. Specifically the term can refer to the institutions of various countries that can be translated by this term...
has a few schools around town. Schools like Vidyadham Prashala and Rayat Shikshan Sanstha, offer education till class 12. There is an Urdu
Urdu
Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...
school in the town as well since Shirur holds quite a large Muslim population. There are English medium school
English medium education
An English medium education system is one that uses English as the primary medium of instruction - in particular where English is not the mother tongue of the students....
s in the town; the New English School, run by Rayat Shikshan Sanstha, the Rasiklal Dhariwal School, run by Shirur Shikshan Prasarak Mandal and Jeevan Shikashan Mandir are few of them.
For higher education there are colleges like the C.T. Bora College of Arts, Science and Commerce. A sister concern, MDIMRT, offers degrees like BCS and MCA. Chhatrapti Sambhaji Shikshan Sanstha offers courses like BEd and BPharm at its Sitabai Thite College.
Industry
Industry around Shirur bloomed around the year 1994 when the state of Maharashtra declared an industrial zone around Shirur, including the towns of KaregaonKaregaon
Karegaon , is a village in Parner taluka in Ahmednagar district of state of Maharashtra, India....
, Dhok Sangvi and Ranjangaon
Ranjangaon
Ranjangaon is a village located at a distance of about 50 km from Pune, en route to Shirur in Maharashtra, and it houses a shrine to Mahaganapati....
. The industrial zone is known as MIDC Ranjangaon-Karegaon. Many manufactures have set up facilities here, among them Apollo Tyres
Apollo Tyres
Apollo Tyres Ltd is the world's 15th biggest tyre manufacturer, with annual revenues of Rs 88.6 billion in 2010. It was founded in 1976. Its first plant was commissioned in Perambra, Kerala. In 2006 the company acquired Dunlop Tyres International of South Africa...
; Whirlpool India, making refrigerators; LG Electronics
LG Electronics
LG Electronics is a global electronics and telecommunications company headquartered in Yeouido, Seoul, South Korea. The company operates its business through five divisions: mobile communications, home entertainment, home appliance, air conditioning and business solution...
, making televisions and mobile handsets; Daewoo
Daewoo
Daewoo or the Daewoo Group was a major South Korean chaebol . It was founded on 22 March 1967 as Daewoo Industrial and was dismantled by the Korean government in 1999...
Electronics, making refrigerators; Wheels India
TVS group
TVS Group is an Indian diversified industrial conglomerate with its principal headquarters located in Chennai and Madurai. Almost all holdings of the group are private...
; Bajaj Electricals
Bajaj Electricals
Bajaj Electricals Ltd is Indian consumer electrical products manufacturing company based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is a part of the Bajaj Group. It has diversified with interests in lighting, luminaries, appliances, fans, LPG based Generators, engineering and projects. It main domains are...
; Frito-Lay
Frito-Lay
Frito-Lay North America is the division of PepsiCo that manufactures, markets and sells corn chips, potato chips and other snack foods. The primary snack food brands produced under the Frito-Lay name include Fritos corn chips, Cheetos cheese-flavored snacks, Doritos and Tostitos tortilla chips,...
of Pepsico
PepsiCo
PepsiCo Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Purchase, New York, United States, with interests in the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of grain-based snack foods, beverages, and other products. PepsiCo was formed in 1965 with the merger of the Pepsi-Cola Company...
Holdings, manufacturing Lays potato chips; Fiat
Fiat
FIAT, an acronym for Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino , is an Italian automobile manufacturer, engine manufacturer, financial, and industrial group based in Turin in the Italian region of Piedmont. Fiat was founded in 1899 by a group of investors including Giovanni Agnelli...
automobiles; Kirloskar; Swarovski
Swarovski
Swarovski is the brand name for a range of precisely-cut crystal and related luxury products produced by Swarovski AG of Wattens, Austria...
; and Ohsung, a Korean company manufacturing electronics parts.
Harita and Harita Fehrer, a TVS Group, company manufacturing seating systems supplied for Tata Motors, John Deere and State transport buses and foam. The company has its own CSR department Srinivasan Services Trust (SST) which works in 24 gram panchayats include 147 villages in Shirur block on education, health, water, infrastructure, environment and infrastructure areas. It has benefited 6658 families in the Shirur block.
Places of interest in and around Shirur
- RamlingRamlingRamling is a village in Pune district, Maharashtra, India, on a distance of 3.0 km from Shirur on the way towards Pabal.The village is known for a famous Shiva Temple. This is an ideal place for weekend pilgrimage....
(Old Shirur)—Lord ShivaShivaShiva is a major Hindu deity, and is the destroyer god or transformer among the Trimurti, the Hindu Trinity of the primary aspects of the divine. God Shiva is a yogi who has notice of everything that happens in the world and is the main aspect of life. Yet one with great power lives a life of a...
's temple (It is believed that Lord RamaRamaRama or full name Ramachandra is considered to be the seventh avatar of Vishnu in Hinduism, and a king of Ayodhya in ancient Indian...
when he was in exile built the Shiva LingLingamThe Lingam is a representation of the Hindu deity Shiva used for worship in temples....
here. Many people gather here for the holy festival of MahashivratriMaha ShivaratriMaha Shivratri or Maha Sivaratri or Shivaratri or Sivarathri is a Hindu festival celebrated every year on the 13th night/14th day in the Krishna Paksha of the month of Maagha or Phalguna...
)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ramling.JPG#filelinks - RanjangaonRanjangaonRanjangaon is a village located at a distance of about 50 km from Pune, en route to Shirur in Maharashtra, and it houses a shrine to Mahaganapati....
on pune -nagar road—a temple to the MahaganapatiConsorts of GaneshaThe marital status of Ganesha varies widely in mythological stories and the issue has been the subject of considerable scholarly review. Several patterns of associations with different consorts are identifiable. One pattern of myths identifies Ganesha as an unmarried brahmacārin with no consorts...
, one of the Ashtavinayaka - Takli Haji—natural potholes in the River Kukdi
- Chincholi MorachiChincholi Morachi', by name itself means a village of tamarind trees & town of Dancing Peacocks all around. It is situated on Ahmednagar-Pune Highway near Shirur, Ranjangaon Ganpati on the distance of 23 km only in Maharashtra , which is beautiful weekend picnic spot near Pune. Today also in Morachi...
—vast peacock sanctuary - Vadhu BudrukVadhu BudrukVadhu Budruk is in Shirur Tehsil of the Pune district.The place is connected to Sambhaji Maharaj - the son of Shivaji Maharaj. Sambhaji was killed in Tulapur and his samādhi was built in Vadhu. Thus, both these places are historically very important. Tulapur is situated on the banks of 3 rivers-...
— samadhiSamadhiSamadhi in Hinduism, Buddhism,Jainism, Sikhism and yogic schools is a higher level of concentrated meditation, or dhyāna. In the yoga tradition, it is the eighth and final limb identified in the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali....
of Chhattrapti SambhajiSambhajiSambhaji Raje Bhosle was the eldest son and successor to Emporer Shivaji, the founder of the Maratha empire.- Early life :...
, son of Chhattrapti Shivaji, was ambushed at SangameshwarSangameshwarSangameshwar is a tehsil in Ratnagiri subdivision of Ratnagiri district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Sangmeshwar is situated at the confluence of the two rivers Sonavi and Shastri. In fact, the very meaning of Sangama in Marathi is confluence, and so the name Sangmeshwar...
in RatnagiriRatnagiriRatnāgiri is a port city on the Arabian Sea coast in Ratnagiri district in the southwestern part of Maharashtra, India. The district is a part of Konkan.The Sahyadri mountains border Ratnagiri to the east...
district, and killed by the MughulMughal EmpireThe Mughal Empire , or Mogul Empire in traditional English usage, was an imperial power from the Indian Subcontinent. The Mughal emperors were descendants of the Timurids...
emperor AurangjebAurangzebAbul Muzaffar Muhy-ud-Din Muhammad Aurangzeb Alamgir , more commonly known as Aurangzeb or by his chosen imperial title Alamgir , was the sixth Mughal Emperor of India, whose reign lasted from 1658 until his death in 1707.Badshah Aurangzeb, having ruled most of the Indian subcontinent for nearly...
at Tulapur.
- Nirvi—dam on the River Ghod
- Pimple Jagtap—temple of DharmarajaDharmapalaIn Vajrayana Buddhism, a dharmapāla is a type of wrathful deity. The name means "Dharma-defender" in Sanskrit, and the dharmapālas are also known as the Defenders of the Law , or the Protectors of the Law, in English....
, eldest of the PandavaPandavaIn the Hindu epic Mahābhārata, the Pandava are the five acknowledged sons of Pandu , by his two wives Kunti and Madri. Their names are Yudhisthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva. Although, Karna is told by Lord Krishna that according to the laws and ethics he is the first son of Kunti making...
, under the trusteeship of the Bendbhar Patil family for the last 300 years