Sangli_State
Sangli State
Princely state of India
Sangli State was one of the 11-gun salute Maratha princely states of British India. It was under the Kolhapur-Deccan Residency in the Bombay Presidency, and later the Deccan States Agency.
The Principality of Sangli covered an area of 2,880 square kilometers and had a population of 226,128 in 1901, while the population of the town itself was 16,829 in that year.
The capital of the state was Sangli.[1] The city derives its name from "Saha Galli" ("Six Lanes" in Marathi).