Ahmednagar

The town was founded in 1494 by Ahmad Nizam Shah, on the site of a more ancient city, Bhingar. With the breakup of the Bahmani Sultanate, Ahmad established a new sultanate in Ahmednagar, also known as Nizam Shahi dynasty. It was one of the Deccan sultanates, which lasted until its conquest by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in 1636. Aurangzeb, the last great Mughal emperor, who spent the latter years of his reign, 1681-1707, in the Deccan, died there in 1707, and a small monument marks the site.



In 1759 the Peshwa of the Marathas obtained possession of the place by bribing the Muslim commander, and in 1790 it was ceded by the Peshwa to the Maratha chief Daulat Rao Sindhia.Ahmednagar was invested by a British force under General Wellesley and captured. It was afterwards restored to the Marathas, but again came into the possession of the British in 1817, according to the terms of the Treaty of Poona.

Ahmednagar is a city in the state of Maharashtra. It is located on the left banks of Sina river. Ahmedanagar can be divided into three physical divisions as Western Hilly Region, Central Plateau Region and the region of northern and southern plains. Ahmednagar is drained by two chief rivers as, the Godavari and the Bhima. The important rivers flowing through the district are Paravara, Mula, Sina and Dhora. The district is far away from the sea.

The climate of the district is hot and dry. Major part of the city experiences hot summer and dryness all through out the year except during south-west monsoon season. The period from March to the first week of June is the hot season. It is followed by the south- west monsoon season which lasts till the end of September. October and November constitute the post-monsoon or the retreating southwest. The western hilly part of Ahmednagar district has forests. The forest contains trees like teak, babul, dhavada, haldu, neem. Fruit trees like Mango, Tamarind, Amala, Bor are also found in the district.

There are the presence of many small and large scale industries in Ahmedabad. The small scale industries includes those industries where grains are seperated from their husks, gathering of medicinal plants, bidi rolling, jaggery making etc.

The large-scale industries are engaged in producing `Ayurvedic` medicines. Other large scale industries in Ahmednagar are manufacturing mopeds and T.V. sets. There are pharmaceutical factories, sugar factories and industries for making engines and pump sets. There are spinning mills, ginning and pressing industries too at Ahmednagar.

Ahmednagar has the maximum number of sugar factories in India. The foremost cooperative sugar factory in Asia was established at Pravara Nagar.

Ahmednagar lies about 73 miles northeast of Pune. Ahmednagar is one of the foremost industrial districts having industries like automobile, electronics, heavy industries, agriculture equipment, sugar co-operative, etc. Ahmednagar has the biggest cricket stadium in Maharashtra provided with international standard sporting facilities.