Portal:Maharashtra/Did you know

... that a majority of the 114 killed in the 1994 Gowari stampede at Nagpur were women and children crushed to death under crowd’s feet?
...that Sir Narayan Ganesh Chandavarkar was regarded as the "leading Hindu reformer of western India"?
...that Ratnakar Matkari combined social realism in supernatural thrillers, which was a pioneering idea in Marathi literature?
...that the publisher of Mirror Buzz, a Mumbai Mirror supplementary magazine, was arrested in 2005 after the magazine featured images of nude women on its front cover?

...that the Bassein Fort (pictured) was at the centre of Portuguese operations in India during the 16th century?
...that the Afghan Church in Mumbai was built to commemorate the dead of the First Afghan War of 1838?
...that Watson's Hotel is India's oldest cast iron building and is among the "100 Most Endangered Sites"?
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