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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of west-central India on the Deccan Plateau east-southeast of Mumbai. It is a trade and textile-manufacturing center.

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  • NTPC's order will be for its plants in New Nabhinagar, Meja, Tanda and Sholapur.

    NTPC May Tender for 11 Units 2009

  • Shivappa Husanappa Godekar, 40, of Pune, Mallesh Pareshram Nadavikari, 25, of Karnataka and Bhimsha Tirappa Bansode of Sholapur were presented in a city court and released on bail Saturday.

    Treasure Trove in India! Jan 2008

  • At 470 lightyears from Earth, Sholapur was an attractive proposition for anyone looking for a distant haven.

    The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007

  • It all started when Tanish was eight-months-old when his mother, Dr Vedika Shelar, then living in Sholapur with her in-laws, heard through a friend about Siddha Samadhi Yoga SSY.

    languagehat.com: MULTILINGUAL KID. 2005

  • BARSI, a town of British India, in the Sholapur district of Bombay, lying within a tract entirely surrounded by the Nizam's dominions.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

  • In Bombay the rendezvous of the Bhamtis is the temple of Devi at Konali, in Akalkot State, near Sholapur, and here the gangs frequently assemble before and after their raids to ask the goddess that luck may attend them and to thank her for success obtained.

    The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

  • Bombay, Ahmednaggar and Sholapur are its principal centres of work; and it covers a field whose population is between three and four millions.

    India's Problem, Krishna or Christ 1881

  • Kotnis, born in Sholapur in 1910, graduated from the University of Bombay in 1936 and followed a medical team dispatched by India to aid China in February 1939.

    Daily News & Analysis 2010

  • Indian doctor to be held in in Sholapur, his birthplace in Maharashtra, in October this year.

    Daily News & Analysis 2010

  • The maximum decrease of 4 points each in Tiruchirapally, Giridih and Sholapur centres was mainly on account of decrease in the prices of rice, arhar dal, masur dal, onion, vegetable and fruit items, sugar, etc.

    Domain-b Brand Dossier 2010

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