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Maharashtra Day is commonly associated with parades and political speeches and ceremonies, in addition to various other public and private events celebrating the history and traditions of Maharashtra. It is celebrated to commemorate the creation of a Marathi-speaking state of Maharashtra.
On 1 May 1960, the erstwhile Bombay State was divided into the current states of Maharashtra and Gujarat based on primary spoken languages as Marathi and Gujarati. The day is hence also celebrated in Maharashtra as Maharashtra Day (महाराष्ट्र दिन) and is observed as state holiday. Marathi thus became the "Official ...
Maharashtra: Maharashtra Day: 1 May Formation (1960) 1960 – Bifurcation of State of Bombay to form State of Maharashtra by Bombay Reorganisation Act, 1960 [15] Manipur: Manipur Day: 21 January Statehood (1972) 1972 – Achieved statehood by State of Manipur Act, 1971 [16] Meghalaya: Meghalaya Day: 21 January Statehood (1972)
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 18:32, 14 July 2023: 1,002 × 1,416, 4 pages (963 KB): TrangaBellam: Uploaded a work by Anon. from "The Manuscript of the Maharashtra Purana" in The Mahārāshṭa Purāṇa: An Eighteenth-Century Bengali Historical Text, translated by Edward C. Dimock and Pratul Chandra Gupta, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1965, pp. XI-XIV. with ...
Ganesh Chaturthi, a popular festival in the state. Maharashtra is the third largest state of India in terms of land area and second largest in terms of population in India. . It has a long history of Marathi saints of Varakari religious movement, such as Dnyaneshwar, Namdev, Chokhamela, Eknath and Tukaram which forms the one of bases of the culture of Maharashtra or Marathi culture.
A former member of the Legislative Council of Maharashtra, [10] Jayant Prabhakar Patil is general secretary of the party. The party has 1 MLA and no MLC. [5] The party has a strong hold on Raigad District as well as party has Zilla Parishad members in 6 districts of Maharashtra, namely Raigad, Solapur, Nashik, Nagpur, Nanded and Parabhani.
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Although Islamic rulers dominated most of Maharashtra region after the fall of Deogiri Yadavas, in the Vidarbha region of present-day Maharashtra—and adjoining areas of present-day Telangana, Chhattisgarh, and Madhya Pradesh—the Gond tribal people established kingdoms that remained free until the advent of the Mughals. From the reign of ...