Dabhol
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Dabhol (Marathi pronunciation: [d̪aːbʱoɭ]), also known as Dabul, is a small seaport town in the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra in India. It is located on the northern and southern sides of the Vashishthi river that later flows by Chiplun town.[1] The Dabhol LNG power plant that had been set up by Enron is located on the southern side of Dabhol, between the villages of Veldur and Ranavi.[2] 17°35′12.62″N 73°10′30.76″E / 17.5868389°N 73.1752111°E
History
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In the 15th and 16th centuries, Dabul was an opulent Muslim trade centre, first under the
It was exactly the prominence of Dabul as a Muslim trade centre and port that led it to be bombarded, sacked and razed by a Portuguese expeditionary force (Battle of Dabul) under Francisco de Almeida in December, 1508, in a prelude to the famous Battle of Diu. Although the city's fort was not taken, it was only the first of several times, in the course of the next few decades, that the Portuguese tried to destroy Dabul. By the time of the last recorded attack, in 1571, the Governor of Dabhul was Khwaja Ali Shirazi. The battle led to killing 150 men at Dabhol.[3]
The break-up of the Bahmani state into several smaller Deccan sultanates had accelerated Dabul's decline. As new capitals for these statelets were erected, Dabul's geographic position was no longer as fortuitous as it had been before, and alternative, more convenient ports were cultivated. In the course of the 16th century, a lot of commerce was redirected away from Dabul and towards the rising new port of Rajapur further south.
The Dabhol port boasts of centuries old history.[1][citation needed] Dabhol was of great importance in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. It used to be the principal port of South Konkan region, carrying on trade with ports in the Mediterranean, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. During 13th to 15th centuries this port was ruled by the Bahamani dynasty and was known as Mustafabad. Later on it was Hamjabad and then it was Dabhol.[3]
Dabul was conquered by
Notes
- ^ Minority StaffCommittee on Government Reform. "FACT SHEET - Background on Enron's Dabhol Power Project (22 February 2002)" (PDF). U.S. House of Representatives. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 October 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
- ^ "Map of Dabhol and Enron LNG project". Google maps. Archived from the original on 4 April 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
- ^ a b c d "Maharashtra Sytate Gazetteers-Ratnagiri District". Government of Maharashtra. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
- ^ For a brief discussion of the decline of the port of Dabul, see Dames (1918: p.164) and Nairne (1873).
Sources
- Dames, M.L. (1918) "Introduction" in An Account Of The Countries Bordering On The Indian Ocean And Their Inhabitants, Vol. 1 (Engl. transl. of Livro de Duarte de Barbosa), 2005 reprint, New Delhi: Asian Education Services.
- Nairne, A.K. (1873), "Musalman Remains in the South Konkan", The Indian Antiquary, Vol. 2, p. 278-83 article
External links
Read about Dabhol in 'ऐतिहासिक दाभोळ: वर्तमान व भविष्य (Historic Dabhol: Present and Future)' book by Anna Shirgaonkar Archived 11 August 2022 at the Wayback Machine - a Konkani historian.[1]
- ^ "Anna Shirgaonkar Research". Archived from the original on 6 September 2019.