Ahmadnâgar
Ahmadnâgar is a city of the state of the Maharashtra in India, on the left bank da the bank Na, to a few 100 km in the south-west of Pûne. Its population is of approximately 750 000 h.
During the British Raj, the city was in the Central division of the province of Bombay. Ahmadnâgar was founded in 1494 by Ahmad Nizâm Shâh Bahrî, on the site of an old city, Bhingar. Ahmad Nizâm thus establishes his dynasty of Nizâm Shâhi which continued until Shah Jahan shift in 1636.
In 1759, the Peshwa obtain the control of the place by lubricating the leg of its Moslem commander , but in 1790 they yield it to the chief marâthe Daulat Râo Sindhia.
During the war anglo-marâthe, Ahmadnâgar is taken by the British troops under the command of the Wellesley general. It is restored with the marâthes at the end of the conflict, but is reassigned with the British in 1817, agreement with the Traité of Pûne.
Aurangzeb, the large last Moghol, died in the city in 1707 and a small monument commemorates this event.
The surroundings of the city comprise many monuments of the period moghole. The fort, considered a long time as the second places most difficult to take of India, was used by the British to hold Nehru and other nationalists before independence. Some parts were transformed there into museum.
One also finds around the city, a notable number of spiritual sites, including one great part is dedicated to Ganesh.
Simple: Ahmednagar
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