Malkapur, Buldhana
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Malkapur मलकापुर |
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Tehsil chauk or Karanja chauk in Malkapur, situated in center of the city is one of the most crowded place in the city.
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| Nickname(s): City of Red Chilli/ Vidarbhache Praveshdwar | |
 Malkapur
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| Coordinates: 20°53′06″N 76°12′00″E / 20.885°N 76.2°ECoordinates: 20°53′06″N 76°12′00″E / 20.885°N 76.2°E | |
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| State | Maharashtra |
| District | Buldhana |
| Area | |
| • Total | 56 km2 (22 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 255 m (837 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 1,78,534 |
| • Density | 230/km2 (600/sq mi) |
| Language | |
| • Official | Marathi |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| PIN | 443101 |
| Telephone code | 07267 |
| Vehicle registration | MH 28 |
| Sex ratio | 0.941 ♂/♀ |
| Literacy | 75.91% |
Malkapur is a city and a municipal council in Buldhana district in the state of Maharashtra, India.
Malkapur is also known as the Entrance of Vidarbha. It's a major industrial and educational center in Buldhana district. It's located on Hajira - Kolkatta National Highway 6, part of Asian Highway 46 from Kharagpur to Dhule. Malkapur is well connected by Railway and Highways.
The town,(Malkapur),is said to have been founded about Six Centuries back by a Prince of the Chordiya dynasty of Khandesh "Mohammad Malik Khan", which got independence from Bahamani Sultanate in 1399 and is said to have been named by him after the princess, Malika, his daughter. One of the old gates of the rampart of dressed stones had an inscription to the effect that it was erected in 1729. Malkapur is mentioned in Ain-i-Akbari as the Headquarters of a Paragana in the Sarkar of Narnala. But the story is improbable as no record of any journey in this direction by Miran Ghani Adil Khan, the Faruqi prince of the period has yet been traced.
In 1761 the town was rich enough to pay Rs. 60,000 to the army of Raghunathrao,who later became a ruling Peshwa from 1773-1774, for exemption from plunder. The Nizams used to keep a force of about 20,000 men in this frontier district of their dominions. Daulatrav Shinde and Raghuji Bhosle were encamped near Malkapur when the British envoy Colonel Collins, after presenting General Lord Wellesley's ultimatum, quit Shinde's camp in 1803.
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