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Nagpur Property Bazaar |
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INTRODUCTION
Nagpur, also known as "Orange City" is the second capital of the state of Maharashtra and the largest city in the central India. It is also the 13th largest urban conglomeration in India. Nagpur is also a major commercial and political center of the region of Maharashtra apart from being the seat of annual winter session of Maharashtra state assembly. Being the headquarters for the Hindu nationalist organization RSS and an important location for the Dalit Buddhist movement, Nagpur has a great political importance also. |
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| With the Zero Mile Marker indicating the geographical center of India, Nagpur lies precisely at the center of the country. The city was founded by the Gonds but later became part of the Maratha Empire under the Bhonsles. In the 19th century, it was made the capital of the Central Provinces and Berar under the rule of British East India Company.Later on, after the reorganization of states, it was made the second capital of Maharashtra. |
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| The Nag River, a tributary of the Kanhan River, flows in a serpentine path and is therefore named "Nag", the Marathi word for Cobra, where the city has supposed to be gotten its name from. The seal of Nagpur Municipal Corporation depicts a cobra in the water of a river. |
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HISTORY
Human existence around present day Nagpur city can be traced back 3000 years. The first reference to the name Nagpur is found in a 10th century copper-plate inscription discovered at Devali in the neighboring Wardha district. |
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| The Non-cooperation movement was launched in the Nagpur session of 1920. The city witnessed a Hindu-Muslim riot in 1923 which had profound impact on K. B. Hedgewar, who in 1925 founded the RSS, and after the 1927 Nagpur riots RSS gained further popularity in Nagpur and the organization grew nationwide. |
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| After Indian Independence in 1947, 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. However when the Indian states were reorganized along linguistic lines in 1956, the Nagpur region and Berar were transferred to Bombay state, which in 1960 was split between the states of Maharshtra and Gujarat. |
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| At a formal public ceremony on October 14, 1956 in Nagpur B.R.Ambedkar along with his supporters converted to Buddhism starting Dalit Buddhist movement which is still active In 1994, the city witnessed its most violent day in modern times in form of Gowari stampede deaths. Nagpur completed 300 years of establishment in the year 2002. A big celebration was organized to mark the event. |
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