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{{Locations_Infobox
|presidency= [[Bombay]]
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|coordinates= [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=16.7,74.2333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=16.7,74.2333 16.700000°N  74.233300°E]
‎|altitude= 569 m (1,867 ft)
|presentname= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolhapur Kolhapur]
|stateprovince= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharashtra Maharashtra]
|country= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India]
|transport= [[Kolhapur State Railway]]
}}
'''Kolhapur''' was the capital of [[Kolhapur State]] which was annexed by the British. It was the terminus of a branch of the [[Southern Mahratta Railway|Southern Mahratta railway]] 30 miles from the main line. 

There was a cantonment for British troops located there c 1860s which was part of the Bombay Presidency.

== Spelling variants ==
Modern name: Kolhapur<br />
Variants: Kolapoor/Kolapore/Calapur/Karvir

== External links ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolhapur "Kolhapur"] Wikipedia (retrieved 23 June 2016)

===Historical books online===
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V15_386.gif "Kolhapur State"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India'', Volume 15, page 380. State in the Kolhapur and Southern Maratha Political Agency, Bombay
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V15_392.gif "Kolhapur City"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India'', Volume 15, page 386.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/gazetteer00pregoog Kolhapur] Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency Volume 24 1886
*[https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/452/mode/2up "Kolapore"] page 453 ''Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations'' 1864 Archive.org

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