Ahmednagar

Historic city of Maharashtra. 110 km from Pune & Aurangabad & Located Centrally in Maharashtra. Also Located within the productive, irrigated agricultural region of Sugarcane Belt. Asia’s first co-operative sugar Factory was started at Pravaranagar by Padmashri Dr. Vitthalrao Vikhe Patil (Founder Of Co-operative Movement). First Prime minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was jailed by the British in Ahmednagar fort for three years (1942-1945), where he wrote Discovery Of India. The land is mainly blessed by Holy Temples of Shri Shirdi Sai Baba & Lord Shani Dev of Shani Shingnapur.

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 at Khuldabad near Aurangabad in 1707, and a small monument marks the site. Maharani Ahilyabai Holkar was born on 31 May 1725 in Chondi village of Jamkhed taluka in Ahmednagar district. In 1759, the Peshwa of the Marathas obtained possession of the place from Nizam of Hyderabad and in 1790 it was ceded by the Peshwa to the Maratha chief Daulat Rao Sindhia.