Malkapur, Buldhana district
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Tehsil chauk or Karanja chauk in Malkapur, situated in center of the city.
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| Nickname(s): 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 |
| 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 to Vidarbha. It's a major industrial and educational center in Buldhana district. Malkapur is well connected by railways and highways.
The town of Malkapur is said to have been founded about six centuries ago by Prince Mohammad Malik Khan, who is said to have named the town after his daughter, Princess Malika. The town gained its independence from Bahamani Sultanate in 1399. 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 known record exists of any journey in this direction by Miran Ghani Adil Khan, a Faruqi prince of the period.
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.
As per the Sarvajanik Granthalay (Public Library) of Malkapur, the Great freedom fighter of India Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose has made his last speech at a public meeting arranged in front of this library sometime in last quarter of 1940 after which he was arrested & imprisoned in his house. After sometime he escaped from his house and went to Germany via present day Afghanistan through Russia.
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