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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Eknath Khadse

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Government Polytechnic, Pune

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

Hanuman Jayanti

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

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.

Jawali Taluka, Maharashtra

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nira

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

Padmadurg

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

Royal College of Science, Arts and Commerce

Royal College of Arts, Science, Commerce and Management, popularly known as Royal College, is a college located in Mira Road, Thane, Maharashtra and is affiliated to University of Mumbai.

Samudra Methi

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

Shri Kehavraj Vidyalaya, Latur

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

St. Agnes High School, Mumbai

Started by missionaries of the Convent of Jesus and Mary in 1912, St. Agnes High School initially housed two different schools — one affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations and the other to the Maharashtra State Board.

Torna Fort

Torna Fort or Prachandagad is a large fort located in Pune district 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

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


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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Jama Mosque, Furus

Jama Masjid Mosque is the oldest, major and prevalent mosque in Furus, in the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra, India.

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.

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.

Kevin Desouza

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

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.

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.

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.

MKSSS's Cummins College of Engineering for Women

MKSSS's Cummins College of Engineering for Women (CCOEW) is an engineering college in Pune, Maharashtra, India run by the Maharshi Karve Stree Shikshan Samstha.

Mohammad Fazel

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

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.

PMC Vidya Niketan School

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

R.K.Khadilkar

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

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.

Wani

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