HUBLI, a town of British India, in the Dharwar district of Bombay, 15 m. S.E. of Dharwar town. Pop. (193I) 89.982. It is a railway junction on the Madras and Southern Mahratta system, where the lines to Bangalore and Bezwada branch off south and west. It is an important centre of trade in cotton, grain and salt, and has spinning and weaving mills, factories for ginning and pressing cotton, railway workshops, soap and manure works. Hubli was an early English factory; it is a military station.