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44 unusual facts about Maharashtra


Aamby Valley City

Aamby Valley City is a township developed by the Sahara India Pariwar in Pune district in the Indian state of 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.

Bombay South Indian Adi-Dravida Sangh School

Bombay South Indian Adi-Dravida Sangh School is an English medium low-cost ("budget") private school located in Dharavi, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

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.

Chavand, Maharashtra

Chavand is a hill fortress situated 30 km from the modern-day town of Naryangoan in Junnar Taluka of Pune district in Maharashtra, India.

Dattopant Thengadi

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

Deshdrohi

The movie was released on 14 November, except in Maharashtra, where it was banned by the state government for 60 days under the Bombay Cinema Regulation Act.

Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar

He was born in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra (Bombay Presidency as it was called then) and was educated first at University of Cambridge and then at Universities Marburg and Göttingen.

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.

Ellora Symphony

Yasushi Akutagawa's Ellora Symphony was composed in 1958 after a visit to the Ellora Caves in Aurangabad, India.

Gagangiri Maharaj

Shri Gagangiri Maharaj (Marathi: गगनगिरी महाराज) was born as Shripad Patankar at Manadure Village in Patan district of South Maharashtra.

Gangaram Thaware

Shri Gangaramji Thaware was born on 23 April 1902 at Jamb, in Bhandara district in Maharashtra.

Gautala Autramghat Sanctuary

Gautala Autramghat Sanctuary is a protected area of Maharashtra state, India.

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It lies in the Satmala and Ajantha hill ranges of the Western Ghats, and administratively is in Aurangabad District and Jalgaon District.

Hanuman Jayanti

In Maharashtra, Hanuman Jayanti is celebrated on the full moon day (pūrnima) of the Hindu lunar month of Chaitra.

Institute of Management Technology, Nagpur

The Institute of Management Technology, Nagpur, also known as IMT Nagpur or simply IMTN, is a premier private business school located in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.

Jawali Taluka, Maharashtra

Taluka has 103 villages under it including a village of same name as taluka, Jawali.

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Jawali is name of a Taluka in Satara district of Maharashtra.

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.

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

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.

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.

Navy Children School Mumbai

The current council has many capable members like the sports captain, Bosco Chiramal, a state level football champion in Maharashtra.

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.

Niphad railway station

Niphad railway station is a railway station in the state of Maharashtra, India, on the Central Railway network, 32 km from Nasik Road.

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.

Savalde

Savalde (also spelled as 'Sawalde', 'Sawalda', 'Savalda') is a small village in Shahada taluka in Nandurbar district of Maharashtra state in India.

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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.

Shri Kehavraj Vidyalaya, Latur

is a Primary and secondary education institution in the Latur district of south-eastern Maharashtra, India.

Shyamchi Aai

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

Upara

Upara (a Marathi language word meaning outsider) is an autobiography written by Laxman Mane, a writer who lives in the state of Maharashtra, India.

Veera Ballala III

By 1318, the Seuna kingdom had been completely destroyed and Devagiri occupied by the Delhi Sultan.

Vidyapeeth Highschool Kolhapur

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

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


Ajit Pawar

These allegations were made by a Maharashtra bureaucrat, Vijay Pandhare, and caused Anjali Damani to request Pawar's resignation as a minister.

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.

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2009 -Hemant Karkare Maharashtra ATS chief, and Vijay Salaskar Maharashtra Police Inspector, died during a battle with terrorists in 2008 Mumbai Terrorist Attack.

Bassein

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

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)

Devipada

Devipada is a densely populated area in East Borivali, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

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.

Fiat India Automobiles

FIAT has a manufacturing plant at Ranjangaon, Maharashtra, which has an installed capacity to produce 100,000 cars and 200,000 engines, besides aggregates and components.

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The company presently employs about 2600 employees and is located at Ranjangaon in the Pune District of Maharashtra.

Gavandi

The Gavandi are a Muslim community found in the state of Maharashtra in 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.

Ghulam-E-Mustafa

The film was shot in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, at studios Film City, Goregaon, Mumbai, Maharashtra, Kamalistan Studios, Andheri, Mumbai, Najabhai Jewellers, Mumbai, Polachi, Kerala, Vauhini Studios, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Vijaya Studios, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

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.

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Some of India's larger wine producing areas are located in Maharashtra, Karnataka near Bangalore and Andhra Pradesh near Hyderabad.

Jivaraj Papriwal

Today the images can be seen in Punjab, Haryana, Bengal, Bihar, Bundelkhand, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka, installed by Jivaraja in temples of the Digambar and Shvetambar sects.

Kelane

Kelane is a small village in Khed, in Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra State in India.

Kevin Desouza

Born in Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra, India he grew up in Doha, Qatar where we completed his primary and secondary education.

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.

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.

Kurza, India

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

Laxman Mane

His autobiography Upara (उपरा) brought to the attention of the public in Maharashtra the problems of nomadic tribes arising out of their social and economic conditions.

Maharashtra Institute of Medical Education and Research

Maharashtra Institute of Medical Education and Research (MIMER) is located in Talegaon, Pune, Maharashtra, India.

Mhapan

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

Mundaje

Among them are the Chitpavan Brahmins who migrated from the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra and in the later years Shetty, Naika, Muslims, Kochi Christians, Havyaka-Karhada-Shivalli Brahmins.

Narayan Rane

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

Nira

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

Open prison

The 1957 Hindi film, Do Aankhen Barah Haath by V.Shantaram was inspired by the story of an 'open-prison' experiment swatantrapur in the princely state of Aundh near Satara, Maharashtra.

Padalda

Padalda, popularly known as shree krishna temple, in taluka Shahada in Nandurbar district, Maharashtra, India.

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.

Prithvi Shaw

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

R.K.Khadilkar

Raghnath Keshav Khadilkar was an Indian National Congress politician from Pune Maharashtra.

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

Sudanipur

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

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

In India, she served as governor of Maharashtra from 1962 to 1964, after which she was elected to the Indian Lok Sabha from Phulpur, her brother's former constituency from 1964 to 1968.

Villages in Jamkhed taluka

There are around 88 villages in Jamkhed tehsil of Ahmednagar district of state of Maharashtra.

Villages in Sangamner taluka

There are around 171 villages in Sangamner tehsil of Ahmednagar district of state of Maharashtra.

Villages in Shrirampur taluka

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