Ahmednagar (ind)

Ahmednagar

Ahmednagar ranks 3,970th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Breitenbrunn, Saxony, Port Louis, and Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Memorable people born in Ahmednagar include Anna Leonowens, Spike Milligan, and Sadashiv Amrapurkar. Memorable people who died in Ahmednagar include Aurangzeb, and Chand Bibi. Ahmednagar has been the birth place of many actors, and writers and the death place of many politicians. Ahmednagar is located in India.

Ahmednagar is a city in, and the headquarters of, the Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra, India. Ahmednagar has several dozen buildings and sites from the Nizam Shahi period. Ahmednagar Fort, once considered almost impregnable, was used by the British to house Jawaharlal Nehru and other Indian Nationalists before Indian independence. A few rooms there have been converted to a museum. During his confinement by the British at Ahmednagar Fort in 1944, Nehru wrote the book The Discovery of India. Ahmednagar is home to the Indian Armoured Corps Centre & School (ACC&S), the Mechanised Infantry Regimental Centre (MIRC), the Vehicle Research and Development Establishment (VRDE) and the Controllerate of Quality Assurance Vehicles (CQAV). Training and recruitment for the Indian Army Armoured Corps takes place at the ACC&S. Read more on Wikipedia