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Ahmadnagar

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Ahmadnagar or Ahmednagar (both: ämədnŭg`ər), city (1991 pop. 222,088), Maharashtra state, W central India, on the Sina River. It is a district administrative center and has industries in cotton and cotton goods and copper and brass goods. The district has a significant sugar industry.

Founded in 1490, it became the capital of the important Deccan kingdom of Ahmadnagar; it was captured (1600) by Akbar's forces after heroic resistance. In the mid-18th cent. it was taken by the Marathas. The fort was used by British for political prisoners, including Nehru (1942–45).

Ahmednagar, Ahmadnagar
a city in W India, in Maharashtra: formerly one of the kingdoms of Deccan. Pop.: 307 455 (2001)


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An Ahmadi mosque was seized at Ahmadnagar in October 2003, and a mosque in Sayedwala was attacked and destroyed in 2001 by a large group of persons led by the village mullahs.
Pakistan by International Religious Freedom Report
On d'Orta ministering to the ruler of Ahmadnagar see Coloquios, nos 11 and 24.
Hindu medical practice in sixteenth-century western India: evidence ... by Pearson, M.N. / Portuguese Studies
She was born at Ahmadnagar in India on January 22, 1898, the day of a total eclipse.
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