Karmala

Karmala is a city and a municipal council in Solapur district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Famous for sairat movieGeographyKarmala is located at. It has an average elevation of. About 12mi to the north of the Jeur railway station and about 82mi from the Solapur railway station, Karmala is the headquarters of the taluka bearing the same name. According to the 1971 Census the population was 14,051. This municipal town, being the headquarters of a taluka, has the offices of the Mamlatdar and the Block Development Officer besides that of the Court of the Civil Judge, Junior Division. There is also a police station the jurisdiction of which extends over 96 villages. It has a post and telegraph office. The water-supply to the town is piped and protected. The town has been electrified. The educational facilities are provided by five primary schools conducted by the municipality, the Mahatma Gandhi Vidyalaya conducted by the Karmala Taluka Co-operative Education Society and Yashwantrao Chavan College of Arts and Commerce conducted by the Vidyavikas, Karmala. The Government basic training college is also located at Karmala. The Samaj Seva Mandal governs the Annasaheb Jagtap Vidyalaya. A Government resthouse is also located at Karmala.HistoryThough no early history of Karmala is available it definitely formed part of the Bahamani empire. After the disintegration of the Bahamani rule into five sultanates of Golkonda, Bijapur, Bidar, Ahmednagar and Berar, Karmala formed a part of the sultanate of Ahmadnagar. However, the town came to limelight only at the beginning of the 18th century after it was conferred upon Rao Rambha Nimbalkar as jagir and after Rao Rambha settled at Karmala in 1727.