Jalna district
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Jalna is an administrative district in the state of Maharashtra in India. The district headquarters are located at Jalna. The district occupies an area of 7718 km² and has a population of 1,612,980 of which 19.09% were urban (as of 2001). [1]
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[edit] Geographical Location
[edit] History
Jalna district was carved out from Aurangabad District in 1981.
[edit] Battle of Assaye
The Battle of Assaye was fought in September 23, 1803 near the village of Assaye in south-central India. It was one of the decisive battles of the Second Anglo-Maratha War. Assaye is located near Jafrabad in Jalna district of Maharashtra. The battle was a decisive one in which the British were led by none other than Arthur Wellesley, who later became Duke of Wellington, and later the British Prime Minister.
In charge of a British and sepoy army of some 13,500 men, General Arthur Wellesley took on a major Indian force at least three times the size of his own at Assaye. The General later on went to defeat Napoleon in the battle of Waterloo in 1814. He himself describes the battle of Assaye as one of his finest battles.
The city of Jalna still bears ruins of a sprawling British Cantonment with an old cemetery still having graves of those killed in the Assaye battle.
[edit] Samarth Ramdas Swami
Samarth Ramdas Swami was a Hindu saint. He was born at Jamb Samarth, Taluk Ghansavangi, District Jalna, on Chaitra Shukla Navami Shake 1530, according to the Hindu Calendar. He was the younger son of Suryajipant Thosar Kulkarni and Ranubai. His actual name was Narayan.
Ramdas Swami wrote the Holy Scriptures Dasbodh, Manache Shloak and many more Shlokas. He coined the religious slogan Jai Jai Raghuveer Samarth.
He built Hanuman Temples in many villages across Maharashtra for the purpose of bringing discipline to youths.
He was also the Guru of Chatrapati Shivaji Raje Bhosale, and guided him during establishment of the Maratha Empire.
[edit] Famous residents
- Bhagwan Kale, Marathi writer and journalist; author of the Marathi book Aapla Jalna Zilla (English translation: Our Jalna Zilla).
- Dasoo Vaidya, poet, dramatist, scriptwriter, and lyricist; head of Department of Marathi at Barwale College, Jalna.
- Janardan Nagapurkar, popularly known as Janardan Mama, freedom fighter who played an important role in the Marathwada Mukti Sangram, in which he lost his life.
- Badrinarayn Barwale, founder of Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company (Mahyco); also a freedom fighter who fought against the British Raj.
- Deepak N. Modi, Philatelist.
- Vishnu Ghule, artist.
MR MANOHAR RAOJI SINGARE IS ONE OF THE FEMOUS REACHEST PERSN IN JALNA, HAVING 16 OIL MILL IN JALNA DEVELOPING JALNA BROUGHT A REVOLUTION IN OIL INDUSTRIES MR KHAN A FAMOUS DOCTOR N SOVIAL WORKER
