As you know Aurangabad is one of the largest and most popular cities in India. It is a city in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra state in India. Aurangabad has been in the news for many reasons and as we all know today is World Tourism Day i wanted to share some photos of Aurangabad which i found today on AMC Commissioner’s Twitter handle.

Aurangabad is known as the City of Gates and is also the Tourism Capital of Marathwada. All the gates have added life by putting these colourful lights which are just amazing. Aurangabad is surrounded by many historical monuments, including the Ajanta Caves and Ellora Caves, which are UNESCO World Heritage Sites, as well as Bibi Ka Maqbara and Panchakki.

Bibi Ka Maqbara

Panchakki

Daulatabad

Khuldabad

Siddharth Garden

History of Aurangabad

Khadki was the original name of the village which was made a capital city by Malik Ambar, the Prime Minister of Murtaza Nizam, Shah of Ahmadnagar. Within a decade, Khadki grew into a populous and imposing city. Malik Ambar died in 1626. He was succeeded by his son Fateh Khan, who changed the name of Khadki to Fatehnagar. With the capture of Daulatabad by the imperial troops in 1633, the Nizam Shahi dominions, including Fatehnagar, came under the possession of the Mughals.

In 1653 when Mughal prince Aurangzeb was appointed the viceroy of the Deccan for the second time, he made Fatehnagar his capital and renamed it Aurangabad. Aurangabad is sometimes referred to as Khujista Bunyad by the Chroniclers of Aurangzeb’s reign.

In 1724, Asif Jah, a Turkic general and Nizam al-Mulk of the Mughals in the Deccan region decided to secede from the crumbling Mughal Empire, with the intention of founding his own dynasty in the Deccan and decided to make Aurangabad his capital. His son and successor, Nizam Ali Khan Asaf Jah II transferred his capital from Aurangabad to Hyderabad in 1763. In 1795, the city came under the Maratha rule, following the Maratha victory in the Battle of Kharda, along with an indemnity of 30 million rupees paid by Ali Khan Asaf Jah II, Nizam of Hyderabad to the Marathas. However, Maratha rule lasted only eight years before the city came under the rule of the Nizam of Hyderabad, under the protection of the British East India Company, following the British victory in the Second Anglo-Maratha War. During the period of the British Raj, the city was known as Aurangabad.

Aurangabad was a part of the Princely State of Hyderabad during the British Raj, until its annexation into the Indian Union after the Indian Independence in 1947, and thereafter a part of Hyderabad state of India until 1956. In 1956 it became a part of the newly formed bilingual Bombay state and in 1960 it became a part of Maharashtra state.

Aurangabad is one of the largest cities in India, Most of the colleges in the region are affiliated with Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University (BAMU) which is located in Aurangabad and as a result, the city is emerging as a prominent location for IT and manufacturing.

In 2008, Aurangabad was one of the fastest-growing cities in Asia.

In 2010, Aurangabad was in news for placing the single largest order for Mercedes Benz cars in a single transaction in India — 150 Mercedes Benz cars worth Rs 65 crore. Without a local Mercedes-Benz showroom and encountering an indifferent Mercedes-Benz dealer in the nearest city, a group of successful citizens pooled their orders and negotiated a recording agreement with the firm. Soon after that, a bulk purchase order of 101 BMW cars was also placed.

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Note: All the below photos are clicked by me.