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Ahilyanagar
City in North Maharashtra, India

Ahilyanagar

Ahmednagar, officially Ahilyanagar, is a city in, and the headquarters of the Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra, India.

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Ahmednagar has several dozen buildings and sites from the Nizam Shahi period. Ahmednagar Fort, once considered almost impregnable, was used by the British to detain Jawaharlal Nehru and other Indian Nationalists before Indian independence. A few rooms there have been converted to a museum. During his confinement by the British at Ahmednagar Fort in 1944, Nehru wrote the book The Discovery of India. Ahmednagar is home to the Indian Armoured Corps Centre & School (ACC&S), the Mechanised Infantry Regimental Centre (MIRC), the Vehicle Research and Development Establishment (VRDE) and the Controllerate of Quality Assurance Vehicles (CQAV). Training and recruitment for the Indian Army Armoured Corps takes place at the ACC&S.

Get in

Getting to Ahilyanagar

Ahmednagar is in the west central part of Maharashtra, roughly east of Pune. It's 120 km away from Pune and Aurangabad, 280 km away from Mumbai and 175 km away from Nasik. Ahmednagar is also served by trains from Pune towards Manmand though there is no direct train from Mumbai.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Ahmednagar Fort

    Built by Ahmed Nizam Shah in 1490, this is an oval-shaped fort, which features 18-m-high walls, supported by 22 bastions.

  2. 02
    Tomb of Salabat Khan II
  3. 03
    Cavalry Tank Museum

    The museum has a rich collection of tanks used during different periods.

Eat

Where to eat

Visit local eateries, try even clean street food if possible. Avoid known hotels. Savedi Road has a lot of good restaurants.

  1. 01
    Sweet Home

    Savedi Rd.

  2. 02
    Sukh Sagar

    Station Rd.

  3. 03
    Thali at Sanket

    Tilak Rd.

  4. 04
    Mahendra Pedewala

    Thali restaurant very popular with locals.

  5. 05
    Snacks @ Royal

    With Pudina Chatni is good.

How locals move

Getting around Ahilyanagar the local way

  • Get aroundWalking, bicycling, auto rickshaws, city buses are your choices.

From Wikivoyage: Ahmednagar, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-08.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Timothy A. Gonsalves (CC BY-SA 4.0), Wikimedia Commons.