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40 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.

Ajantha

Ajantha is a village in Aurangabad district, Maharashtra.

Anjuman Haideri Hallaur

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

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.

Chandrabhaga Dam, Amravati

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

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.

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

Deshdrohi

There were accusations that the movie was cashing in on the 2008 attacks on North Indians in Maharashtra.

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.

Dnyaneshwar Vidyapeeth

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

Gagangiri Maharaj

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

Gautala Autramghat Sanctuary

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

Hanuman Jayanti

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

Himayatnagar

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Malavli

Malavli (Marathi: मळवली) is a burgeoning town and a hill station in Pune district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

Mangesh Narayanrao Kale

Mangesh Narayanrao Kale was born in Aurangabad district, Maharashtra, in 1966.

Navy Children School Mumbai

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

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.

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.

Savedi

Savedi is a locality with a population of about 100,000 in the northern part of the city of Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India.

Shendurni

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

Torna Fort

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

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.

Waheed Akhtar

After spending his childhood in Aurangabad, and completing his early education, he went to Hyderabad to enroll at Osmania University.

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.

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.

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

Babasaheb Bhosale

Bhosale was first elected to the Maharashtra State Vidhan Sabha (state assembly) in 1980 as a representative of Nehru Nagar, which is located near Kurla suburb in Bombay.

Bassein

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

Battle of Kolhapur

Battle of Kolhapur was a land battle that took place on December 28, 1659 near the city of Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India between the Maratha Chhatrapati Shivaji and the Rustam Zaman of Adilshah.

Belunki

Belunki is small village near Khadakewada in Kagal tehsil, Kolhapur district, Maharashtra, India.

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.

Deccan Odyssey

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Kelane

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

Kurli

Kurli, Maharashtra, a village in Sindhudurg district, Maharashtra state, 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.

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

Maharashtra State Election Commission

It conducts rural and urban local body elections in the state of Maharashtra.

Manora

Manora, Washim, a taulka in Washim district of Maharashtra, India

Mhapan

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

Mumbai Monorail

On 18 August 2008 Vilasrao Deshmukh, the then Chief Minister of Maharashtra, cleared the notification for construction of a monorail system in Mumbai.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Society for Education Action and Research in Community Health

Society for Education Action and Research in Community health (SEARCH), is an non-governmental organization in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India, which works in the field of rural health services and research.

Sulewadi

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

Vijay Pandhare

A Mumbai Mirror cover story carried the title "Warrior duo that sunk Ajit Pawar", crediting Pandhare with forcing the Nationalist Congress Party senior politician Ajit Pawar to resign from the number two post in Maharashtra's cabinet of ministers.

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.