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Nāgpur (meaning City of the Snakes) is a city located near the geographical center of India, in the state of Maharashtra. Nagpur has a metropolitan population of 2.4 million ( 1998 est.), roughly half of them speak Marathi. It is known throughout the country as the "Orange Capital," due to its favorable climate for growing oranges.Recently awarded for being the cleanest city of India, Nagpur is also second the greenest city of India. With growing infrastructure Nagpur will soon become a cosmopolitan city.
Nagpur is the capital of Nagpur District and Nagpur Division, and is the center of the historic Vidarbha region, which includes most of eastern Maharashtra.
1 History
Nagpur was founded by Bhakt Buland, a prince of the Gond kingdom of Deogarh in the Chhindwara District. In 1743 the Maratha leader Raghoji Bhonsla of Vidarbha established himself at Nagpur, and by 1751 he had conquered the territories of Deogarh , Chanda and Chhattisgarh. Raghoji died in 1755Events January 25 Moscow University established. July 9 French and Indian War: Braddock Expedition British troops and colonial militiamen are ambushed and suffer a devastating defeat inflicted by French and Indian forces. During the battle, British Genera, and in 1769Events Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen exhibits the " Mechanical Turk", a chess-playing machine May 14 Charles III of Spain sends Spanish missionaries, who found California missions in San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Francisco and Monterey and begin the settlem his son and successor, Janoji, was forced to acknowledge the Maratha peshwaThe Peshwa were the hereditary rulers of the Maratha empire of central India from 1713 to 1818. The title is the equivalent of a Prime Minister to a king. The Maratha empire was founded by Shivaji in 1658. In 1674, Shivaji declared himself king ( raja), a of PunePune (Poona Classification Metropolitan City Country India State Maharashtra Languages Marathi, English, Hindi and others Time zone GMT +5:30 Importance Eighth largest city in India Population Total 2,691,000 ( 2004) Area 440. 00 km2 Latitude Longitude 18's effective supremacy. The Nagpur state, however, continued to grow. In 1785Events January 1st The first issue of the Daily Universal Register later known as The Times is published in London. January 7 Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England to Calais, France in a hydrogen gas balloon Mudhoji (d. 1788Events January 1 First edition of The Times previously The Daily Universal Register was published. January 2 Georgia ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 4th U. January 9 Connecticut ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes t), Janoji's successor, bought Mandla and the upper NarmadaThe Narmada or Nerbudda is a river in central India. It forms the traditional boundary between the Deccan and the Indo-Gangetic plain, and is a total of 1,289km (801mi) long. It rises on the summit of Amarkantak Hill in the Madhya Pradesh state, and for t valley from the Peshwa, and between 1796Events Edward Jenner develops vaccination, using cowpox to protect against smallpox February 1 The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York March 9 Widow Josephine de Beauharnais marries General Napoleon Bonaparte. March 30 Carl Gauss obtained and 1798 this was followed by the acquisition of Hoshangabad and the larger part of Saugor and Damoh by Raghoji II (d. 1816). Under this raja, Nagpur covered what is now eastern Maharashtra state, as well as Chhattisgarh, Orissa, and parts of Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand.
In 1803 Raghoji joined the Peshwas against the British in the Second Anglo-Maratha War. The British prevailed, and Raghoji had to cede Cuttack , Sambalpur , and part of Berar. After Raghoji II's death in 1816 his son Parsaji was deposed and murdered by Mudhoji, known as Appa Sahib. In spite of a treaty signed the same year with the British, in 1817 Mudhoji joined the peshwa in the Third Anglo-Maratha War, but was defeated at Sitabaldi and forced to cede the rest of Berar to the Nizam of Hyderabad, and parts of Saugor and Damoh, with Mandla, Betul , Seoni and the Narmada valley, to the British. After a temporary restoration to the throne he was deposed, and Raghoji III, a grandchild of Raghoji II, was placed on the throne. During his minority, which lasted till 1840, the country was administered by a British resident. In 1853, on the death of Raghoji III without a male heir, The British took control of Nagpur. Nagpur province, which consisted of the present Nagpur region, Chhindwara and Chhatisgarh, was administered by a commissioner under the central government from 1853 to 1861, when it became part of the Central Provinces, ruled by a British governor, with Nagpur as its capital. Berar was added in 1903.
After Indian Independence in 1947, the Central Provinces and Berar became a province of India, and in 1950 became the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, again with Nagpur as its capital. In 1956 the Indian states were reorganized along linguistic lines, and the Nagpur region and Berar were transferred to Bombay state, which in 1960 was split into the states of Maharashtra and Gujarat.
