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NIZAMPUR

Nizampur (T. Mangahv; 18° 15' N, 73° 15' E; p. 1956; RS. Mumbra, 85 m.) is a small town in the Manganv taluka, on the left bank of the Nizampur Kal, about eight miles north-east of Mangahv with, which it is connected by a branch road. It is a good camping place, and a local trade centre of some importance. In the village is a fine pond, probably originally Maratha, repaired and faced with stone from local funds. Somewhere on its hank there seems to have been a Hemadpanti temple, which has been pulled down and many of the stones used in a small mosque in Pnjape village about a mile west of Nizampur. Several of the temple stones still lie near the pond; two slabs, especially, which are set before the temple of Ganapati near the pond, very probably belong to the old temple. There are some broken memorial paliya and sati stones which were probably grouped near the old temple. There are two temples of Visnu in the village with a curious carved facade, and in one of the temples two bull's-eye windows in well carved wooden tracery [Mr. W. F. Sinclair, C. S.]. In 1675 Fryer mentions it as Nishampore [New Account, 50, 77, 78.], and in 1684 it was the scene of the defeat of Sambhaji by Shahabuddin Khan, the father of Nizam-ul-mulk [Elphinstone's History of India, 575; Grant Duff, Vol. I, 252. Shahabuddin was given the title of Gajiuddin for his achievements.]. Till 1867 when the offices were moved to Mangahv, Nizampur was the headquarters of a sub-division.

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