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45 unusual facts about Maharashtra


Ajantha

Ajantha is a village in Aurangabad district, Maharashtra.

Ala-ud-Din Bahman Shah

By the time of his death the kingdom stretched from north to south from the Wainganga River to Krishna and east to west from Bhongir to Daulatabad.

Aligarh Muslim University

The AMU has established centres at Malappuram, (Kerala) and Murshidabad, (West Bengal) while the Kishanganj, (Bihar) centre has been allotted land, and a site has been identified for Aurangabad, (Maharashtra) centre.

Anjuman Haideri Hallaur

Anjuman –e- Haideri Hallaur is a religious organization of Hallauris established and registered in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Arun Khetarpal

Second Lieutenant Arun Khetarpal, PVC (14 October 1950 – 16 December 1971) born in Pune, Maharashtra, was an officer of the Indian Army and a posthumous recipient of the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest military decoration for valour in face of the enemy.

Aryan E S High School

Aryan E S High School is an educational institute located in Girgaon, Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Ashta

Ashta, Maharashtra, a city in Sangli district in the state of Maharashtra, India

Bidkin

Bidkin is a large village in Paithan Taluka of Aurangabad district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

Buddha's Birthday

Though the birth of Birth of Buddha is Nepal Buddha Purnima or Tathagata is celebrated in India, especially in Sikkim, Ladakh, Arunachal Pradesh, Bodh Gaya, various parts of North Bengal such as Kalimpong, Darjeeling, and Kurseong, and Maharashtra (where 6% of total population are Buddhists) and other parts of India as per Indian calendar.

Chandrabhaga Dam, Amravati

Chandrabhaga Dam, is an earthfill dam on Chandrabhaga river near Amravati in state of Maharashtra in India.

Chitpavani Konkani

Chitpavans, as they are known today, evolved as a community in the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra, India.

Dattopant Thengadi

called Arvi (Wardha, Maharashtra) in the year 1920 (10 November) on the auspicious

Deccan Odyssey

It is a venture of the Maharashtra Government and the Ministry of Railways, Government of India.

In 2004, the Maharashtra government stopped its run of the Deccan Odyssey, citing poor response, but restarted it after the monsoon season.

Dhanteras

There is a peculiar custom in Maharashtra to lightly pound dry coriander seeds (Dhane in Marathi for Dhanatrayodashi) with jaggery and offer as Naivedya.

Dnyaneshwar Vidyapeeth

At the time of its establishment in 1980, there were only a few institutions in Maharashtra providing engineering and medical courses.

Dravidian languages

Dravidian place-names along the northwest coast, in Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat, and to a lesser extent in Sindh, as well as Dravidian grammatical influence such as clusivity in the Marathi, Konkani, Gujarati, Marwari, and to a lesser extent Sindhi languages, suggest that Dravidian languages were once spoken more widely across the Indian subcontinent.

Ferry Wharf

Ferry Wharf (also called as Bhaucha Dhakka) is a wharf along the Thane Creek, along the coast of Dockyard Road on the Eastern seafront of Mumbai, the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra.

Ghatnandur train crash

The Ghatnandur train crash occurred on the 3 January 2003, when a passenger train travelling from Secunderabad to Manmad crashed into the rear end of a heavy goods train near Ghatnandur in Maharashtra, India.

Gosi kd Dam

Gosi kd Dam, full name being Gosi Khurd Dam, is an earthfill dam on Wainganga river near Bhandara, but located in Nagpur district in state of Maharashtra in India.

Government Polytechnic, Pune

Government Polytechnic, Pune is an autonomous institute in Maharashtra, India.

Himayatnagar

Himayatnagar, Maharashtra: A tehsil of Nanded District in Maharashtra, India

Indian community of London

Many members of London's Indian community can trace their ancestry to the Indian states of West Bengal , Punjab , Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Rajastan, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Bihar.

Jeevanvidya Mission

Jeevanvidya Mission is a non profit organization established in 1955 Maharashtra, India by Satguru Shri Wamanrao Pai for the material and spiritual upliftment of mankind.

Kalambha

Kalambha is a small village of the Nagpur district of Maharashtra, India.

Kaleidoscope Festival, Sophia College

Sophia College for Women, located on Pedder Road (Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) holds an annual intercollegiate festival called "Kaleidoscope", sometimes referred to as K-scope by the young.

Kavesar

Kavesar is now part of Thane city, Maharashtra, India, nearly 7 kilometers from Thane railway station.

Konkani in the Roman script

Konkani is a language that is spoken by 3.6 million speakers mostly on the western coast of the Indian states of Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka and Kerala.

Kumbhoj

The former name is apparently free from Iranian or Paisaci influence since Maharashtra location was far removed from the north-west division of ancient India.

Kumbhoj (pronounced as kam'bho'j) is the name of an ancient town located in Kolhapur district in Maharashtra.

Lower Tapi Dam

Lower Tapi Dam (or Padalse Dam) is an earthfill dam on Tapti river near Amalner, but in Dhule district in state of Maharashtra in India.

M. S. Golwalkar

Golwalkar was born on 19 February 1906 at Ramtek near Nagpur, Maharashtra; the only surviving son of the nine children of his parents: Sadashivrao, a school teacher and Lakshmibai.

Maharshi Karve Stree Shikshan Samstha

Today, the 113 year old institution that had its foundation and establishment in a small hut in Hingne is now expanded and is presently running 60 numbers of educational units having diversified branches all over Maharashtra with units located at Pune, Wai, Ratnagiri, Nagpur, Kamshet, etc.

Nagarchal language

The Nagarchal people live in the Balaghat, Chhindwara, Mandla and Seoni districts of Madhya Pradesh, the Durg District of Chhattisgarh, the Bhandara District in Maharashtra, and Rajasthan.

Nira

Nira, Maharashtra, a town in southwestern Maharashtra state in India

Padmadurg

Padmadurg, also known as Kasa fort, is a fort in Maharashtra, India.

Patta Fort

Patta Killa, also known as Vishramgad, is a fort situated between Nasik and Ahmadnagar in Maharashtra.

Rajarshi Shahu College, Latur

Rajarshi Shahu College, Latur (R.S.M.L.) is a higher secondary education institution in the Latur district of south-eastern Maharashtra, India.

Ryan International School, Nasik

Ryan International School is a school in the city of Nasik in Maharashtra, India.

Samudra Methi

This nomenclature is typical to places in and around Mumbai, in Maharashtra, India.

Savalde

Savalde village is situated around 5 km away from Shahada and around 1 km west from Maharashtra State Highway Number 1 on Shahada-Dhule road.

Shendurni

Shendurni is important pilgrimage city on the banks of the Sone river in Jalgaon district of Maharashtra, India.

Torna Fort

Torna Fort or Prachandagad is a large fort located in Pune district in the state of Maharashtra, India.

Waheed Akhtar

His early education took place at Chelipura High School, a government school in Aurangabad.

Wani

Wani, Maharashtra, a city and a municipal council in Yavatmal district in the Indian state of Maharashtra


Angria Bank

In 2008, Maharashtra state Finance Minister Jayant Patil announced a Rs 50 million initiative to explore Angria Bank to determine the feasibility of further marine tourism in the area.

Arvi

Arvi, Wardha the city in the Wardha district of Maharashtra, India

Ashok Chakra Award

2009 – Tukaram Ombale (Maharashtra Police assistant sub-inspector) – Around midnight, a wireless message was flashed that two terrorists were moving towards Marine Drive in a car and Ombale immediately positioned barricades to block its passage.

Bahujan Vikas Aaghadi

The party leader is Hitendra Thakur, a former Independent member of the Maharashtra legislative assembly, Baliram Sukur Jadhav of the BVA, backed by Hitendra Thakur, was elected to the 15th Lok Sabha in 2009 and declared unconditional support to the UPA government.

Bassein

Vasai, a city in Thane District, Maharashtra, India; known as Bassein during Portuguese rule.

Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary

Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary was created in the Ambegaon and Khed talukas of Pune District, in the Western Indian state of Maharashtra in order mainly to protect the habitat of the Indian Giant Squirrel.

Boys' Town Public School

Boys' Town Public School, in Nashik, Maharashtra, India, is one of the oldest English medium schools in the region.

Devaki Pandit

1986 - Maharashtra State Award for "Best Female Playback Singer" (Film Ardhangi)

Dhanaji Jadhav

During 1689 – 1690, Santaji and Dhanaji were directed to prevent the Mughal army in Maharashtra to enter into Karnataka after Rajaram’s flight to Gingee.

Dhirubhai Ambani International School

The Dhirubhai Ambani International School (DAIS) is a private co-educational LKG-12 day school in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, built by Reliance Industries, named after the late patriarch of the conglomerate, Dhirubhai Ambani.

Elora, Ontario

Gilikson named the community after his brother's ship, which was itself inspired by the Ellora Caves near Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India.

Gharkul

This project was started in the year 2000 and completed in 2002 and the opening ceremony was presided by the then Chief Minister of Maharashtra Vilasrao Deshmukh.

Govind Talwalkar

He received the Lokmanya Tilak Award from the Government of Maharashtra, India and also the B. D. Goenka Award and Durga Ratan Award for excellence in journalism, and Ramshastri award for social justice.

Gulabrao Patil

Gulabrao Patil was born on 16 September 1921 in a Maratha family in Benadi, a small village on the Maharashtra-Karnataka state border near Kolhapur.

Indian wine

The altitude of India's vineyards typically range from around 660 ft (200 m) in Karnataka, 984 ft (300 m) in Maharashtra, 2,600 ft (800 m) along the slopes of the Sahyadri to 3,300 ft (1000 m) in Kashmir.

Jasuben Shilpi

Her sculpture works have been installed in Indian states like Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Rajasthan, Bihar, Uttarakhand.

Kailashnath Temple, Ellora

Kailashnath Temple, also Kailash or Kailāsa or Kailasanath Temple, is a famous temple, one of the 34 monasteries and temples known collectively as the Ellora Caves, extending over more than 2 km, that were dug side by side in the wall of a high basalt cliff in the complex located at Ellora, Maharashtra, India.

Kavikulguru Institute of Technology and Science

Kavikulguru Institute of Technology and Science (K.I.T.S) is an engineering college affiliated to the Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University and situated in the city of Ramtek, Nagpur district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

Khando Ballal

For the performance shown during the tough times at Gingee, Rajaram gave him the vatan of Dabhol in the konkan area of Maharashtra.

Khillari cattle

& also this animals are found in neighbouring districts of Sangli, Kolhapur & Solapur of Western Maharashtra.

Kristi language

Korlai Indo-Portuguese is the language of some 1,000 Luso-Indian Christians in an isolated area around the village of Korlai in Raigad District of Maharashtra state, India.

Kurza, India

Kurza is a small village situated on the banks of the Wainganga River in Bhandara district, Maharashtra state, India.

Legislative council

India: The Vidhan Parishad (or Legislative Council) in seven of the twenty-eight Indian states (Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh), the Vidhan Parishad serves as the upper house of a bicameral legislature

Mhapan

Mhapan is a village surrounded by hillocks in Sindhudurg district, Maharashtra, India.

Miraj Senior

Maraj Senior was a Maratha princely states of British India, under the southern division of the Bombay Presidency, forming part of the southern Mahratta Jagirs, and later the Deccan States Agency.

Mohammad Fazel

Mohammed Fazal, Governor of Maharashtra from October 10, 2002 to December 5, 2004

Narayan Rane

He supervised the debut of his two sons- Nitesh and Nilesh in Maharashtra's political arena as his political heirs.

Nilwande Dam

Nilwande dam, also called as Upper Pravara dam, in the Indian state of Maharashtra is the second largest dam on the Pravara river.

Pandharinath Sawant

Pandharinath Sawant (Marathi: पंढरीनाथ सावंत ) is a journalist from the state of Maharashtra in India who worked closely with Prabodhankar Thackeray and Bal Thackeray.

PMC Vidya Niketan School

These schools are famous for their success in Middle school and High school scholarship exam held by Maharashtra government.

Poona College

The Poona College of Arts, Science and Commerce is a Muslim minority academic institution in Pune, Maharashtra, India.

Prithvi Shaw

Shaw was born in Thane, Maharashtra, and enrolled aged three in the Virar cricket academy by his father.

Rattus satarae

It is native to the northern Western Ghats in India where it is split between three regions, Satara in Maharashtra, the Nilgiri mountains in Tamil Nadu and Kodagu district in Karnataka.

Redi

Redi, a village in Vengurla taluka of Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra state in India; known for the Ganapati Temple

Saeed Akhtar Mirza

Saeed was born in 1943, in Bombay, Maharashtra to Akhtar Mirza, noted screenwriter himself, who won the Filmfare Best Story Award for Waqt (1965).

Shyamchi Aai

Shyamchi Aai is an autobiography of Sane Guruji belonging to a Brahmin family in Konkan region of rural Maharashtra during British Raj.

Sudanipur

Ubaid Azam Azmi s/o Shaikh Shamim Ahmed (Urdu Poet, Bollywood Lyricist, Prosody Scholar & ex. Special Executive officer Govt. of Maharashtra)

Sulewadi

Sulewadi is a village situated in Patan tehsil and located in the Satara district of Maharashtra.

Tractors in India

In 2000, John Deere set up production in a joint venture with Larsen & Toubro Ltd in Sanaswadi, in a rural area near Pune, Maharashtra.

Vidyapeeth Highschool Kolhapur

Vidyapeeth Highschool Kolhapur, is a Marathi school located in the southern city of Maharashtra - Kolhapur.

Villages in Shrirampur taluka

There are around 54 villages in Shrirampur taluka of Ahmednagar district of state of Maharashtra.