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VALVE
Valve (Radhanagari T. 16° 25' N; 74° 05' E;
p. 4,225), also known as Kasaba Valve is a large village on the
right bank of the Dudhaganga about fifteen miles south of Kolhapur.
Of objects of interest Valve has the mansion or vada of the
dumaledar or part-owner of the village, a square building of mud and
sun-burnt bricks about 210 feet long and 110 broad. Valve has also
an old mosque about eighteen feet long, fourteen broad and fifteen
high, there is also a tomb dedicated to a member of the Ghatge
family. At this tomb, from the dark 8th to the dark 10th of
Magh or January-February a fair used to be held till 1953,
which was attended by about 7,000 people.
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