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AURANGABAD, or AURUNGABAD

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AURANGABAD, or AURUNGABAD , a See also:city of See also:India, in the dominions of the See also:nizam of See also:Hyderabad, See also:north-See also:west See also:division, situated 138 m. from See also:Poona, 207 from Bombay via Poona, and 270 from Hyderabad on the See also:river Kaum. It gives its name to a See also:district. It was founded in 161o, under the name of Fatchnagar, by Malik Ambar, an Abyssinian, who had risen from the See also:condition of a slave to See also:great See also:influence. Subsequently it became the See also:capital of the See also:Mogul conquests in the See also:south of India. See also:Aurangzeb, who erected here a See also:mausoleum to his wife which has been compared to the Taj at See also:Agra, made the city the seat of his See also:government during his viceroyalty of the See also:Deccan, and gave it the name of Aurangabad. It thus See also:grew into the See also:principal city of an extensive See also:province of the same name, stretching westward to the See also:sea, and comprehending nearly the whole of the territory now comprised within the See also:northern division of the See also:presidency of Bombay. Aurangabad See also:long continued to be the capital of the See also:succession of potentates bearing the See also:modern See also:title of nizam, after those chiefs became See also:independent of See also:Delhi. They abandoned it subsequently, and transferred their capital to Hyderabad, when the See also:town at once began to decline. Aurangabad is a railway station on the Hyderabad-See also:Godavari See also:line, 435 M. from Bombay. In 1901 the See also:population, with military cantonments, was 36,837, showing an increase of 8 % in the See also:decade. It has a See also:cotton See also:mill. The district of Aurangabad has an See also:area of 6172 sq. m.

The population in 1901 was 721,407. It contains the famous caves of See also:

Ajanta, and also the battlefield of See also:Assaye.

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