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43 unusual facts about 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.

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

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.

Bordharan

Bor Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary located Hingi Wardha 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.

Chikitsak Samuha Shirolkar High School

Chikitsak Samuha Shirolkar High School (abbr: CSS High School) is an educational institute, established in 1906, and located in Girgaon area of Mumbai, Maharashtra State in India.

Chitpavani Konkani

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

Deccan Odyssey

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

Deshdrohi

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

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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.

Deulgaon Bazar

Deulgaon Bazar is a village in Sillod taluka in the Indian state of Aurangabad district, Maharashtra.

Devipada

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

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.

Eknath Khadse

Eknath Khadse is a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party and prominent leader of BJP in Maharashtra.

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.

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.

Himayathnagar

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.

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.

Kalambha

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

Kolkewadi Dam

Kolkewadi Dam or Kolkiwadi Dam is a dam located in the Konkan region, Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra, India.

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.

Malavli

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

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.

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.

Nira

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

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.

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.

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.

Shri Kehavraj Vidyalaya, Latur

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

Vidyapeeth Highschool Kolhapur

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

Waheed Akhtar

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

Wani

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


Allcargo Logistics Limited

Allcargo operates customized warehousing and supply through its own warehouses at Goa, Pithampur (near Indore in the state of Madhya Pradesh), Hosur (in the state of Tamil Nadu) and Bhiwandi (near Mumbai in the state of Maharashtra state).

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

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.

Basim

Washim, an Indian city in the state of Maharashtra with Basim being an alternative name

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.

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)

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.

Dvaravati sila

This Sila is worshipped, along with or independent of Sila (murthi) or Saligrama Sila, in some parts of the country (among Vaishnavites of Saurashtra, Bengal and Maharashtra; the Madhva sect in Karnataka), particularly in the Vaishnava tradition.

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

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.

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.

Khillari cattle

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

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.

Kurli

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

Lilavatibai Podar High School

It is a private, ICSE, unaided, independent, day-boarding school, registered with the state of Maharashtra.

Maharashtra Institute of Medical Education and Research

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

Manora

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

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.

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.

Padalda

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

Poona College

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

R.K.Khadilkar

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

Redi

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

Sironcha

There is a planned National highway No 16 between Nizamabad in Andhra Pradesh and Jagdalpur in Chhatisgarh State, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh states.

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.

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.

Villages in Shrirampur taluka

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