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| Malegaon Template:Lang-ur ( मालेगाव )\Malegaon | |
|---|---|
| City | |
 Malegaon Fort | |
| Nickname: Manchester Capital Of India | |
| Country |  India |
| State | Maharashtra |
| District | Nashik |
| Taluka | Malegaon |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipal Corporation |
| • Mayor | Tahera Shaikh Rasheed |
| Population | |
| • City | 471,006 |
| • Rank | 94 |
| • Metro | 576,425 |
| Languages | |
| • Most Widely Spoken | Urdu |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 423203 |
| Telephone code | 91 2554-xxxxxx |
| Vehicle registration | MH-41 |
| Website | http://www.malegaoncorporation.com/ http://www.mlmcelection.org/ |
Malegaon ( Template:Lang-ur) is a city and a Municipal Corporation in Nashik District in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Malegaon is second largest city of Nashik district after Nashik city itself.
History
Malegaon is located on the Mumbai-Agra national highway (N.H.03) at the confluence of the Mausam and Girna rivers. Situated on the road linking Mumbai and Agra — now National Highway No 3 — it used to be a small junction known as Maliwadi (hamlet of gardens). It quickly gained the reputation for being a source of employment in 1740 when a local jahagirdar, Naro Shankar Raje Bahadur, started building a fort in the area. As the fort took 25 years, a sizeable number of Muslim workers and artisans from places like Surat and northern India settled in the area. After the British capture of the Malegaon fort in 1818, Muslims from Hyderabad migrated to the region. The 1857 revolt saw many Muslims from the north locate themselves here, and the pattern kept repeating itself over the years. Malegaon, with its growing Muslim presence, became something of a shelter and a source of employment for the community whenever it faced reversals. If famine in 1862 forced Muslim weavers in the Varanasi area to move to Malegaon, the political upheavals in the Hyderabad of the late 1940s and 1950's saw a similar exodus to the town. Communal riots, specially from the 1960s onward, have also undoubtedly contributed to swelling the number of Muslim migrants to Malegaon.
Geography
Malegaon is located at the confluence of Girna and Mausam rivers, at elevation of 438 metres (1437 feet) at 18°25′N 77°32′E / 18.42°N 77.53°E / 18.42; 77.53. It is located at around 280 km northeast of state capital Mumbai. It has good connectivity with nearby cities like Nashik, Manmad,Mumbai and Dhule.
Economy
Malegaon is major hub for cloth weaving using early twentieth century power looms. It has an estimated 3 lakh power looms producing about 1 crore (10 million) meters of cloth every day. It attracts workers from various part of India due to lower cost of living and Muslim dominance. The power loom industry is going through difficult times due to various factors like fluctuating government policies, frequent electricity outage, lack of political will, middleman at every stage and reluctance to migrate to advanced machines. Though it is still a major source of employment, most of workers struggle to make a living. In recent times, the city has observed a change in migration pattern wherein the worker prefer to move to Metros compared to Malegaon for better and stable job opportunities.
Religion and Demographics
| Religions in Malegaon | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Religion | Percent | |||
| Islam | 68% | |||
| Hinduism | 22% | |||
| Buddhists | 6% | |||
| Jains | 3.4% | |||
| Christianity | 0.2% | |||
| Others† | 0.4% | |||
| Distribution of religions †Includes Sikhs (0.2%), OBC, VJNT (<0.2%). | ||||
As of 2011 India census, Malegaon city had a population of 576,425. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Malegaon has an average literacy rate of 73%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: Male literacy is 70%, and female literacy is 61%. About 18% of the population is under 6 years of age. In addition, most of the children forced to work at teenage to help the family, because of poverty.
Proposal to carve out Malegaon District
The Nashik District is under proposal to be divided and a separate Malegaon district be carved out. Due to increasing population, the city of Malegaon already have almost all District administration offices.
Bombings
Main articles: 2006 blasts at Malegaon and 8 September 2006 blasts at MalegaonOn 8 September 2006, at least 37 people died and at least 125 were seriously injured when three bomb blasts hit a cemetery in Malegaon town.
Main article: 29 September 2008 western India bombingsOn 29 September 2008, the eve of Ramzan, two bombs exploded in Malegaon killing seven persons. Investigations later lead to Hindu militant organization involved in both bombings.
Malegaon Movies
Malegaon's notoriously wacky spoof industry has introduced many classic Hollywood and Bollywood characters to the satellite town of Malegaon by giving them its quintessential dialogue, looks, circumstances and well, food. After having conquered local imagination with such cult spoofs as Malegaon ke Sholay, Malegaon ka James Bond and Supermen of Malegaon, the impoverished film-maker invaded national television with his second version of Malegaon Ka Chintu, Chintu ban gaya Gentleman, a mute comedy based loosely on Mr Bean.
Education
The vast city's education system has been able to support various languages (Urdu/Marathi/English) through numerous institutions. There are enough number of schools available for primary, Secondary and Higher Scondary education. There are junior colleges and senior colleges too affiliated by Pune Uniersity. One can find the engineering college also but there is an urgent need of Medical Colleges and Management Institutions. The students of Malegaon are forced to travel to nearby cities for higher education.
Urdu in Malegaon
With hundreds of Urdu Schools, Colleges and Madrasas, Malegaon is major centre of the in modern India. Urdu is prevalent in all eastern parts of city. There still exists sign boards in Urdu in all parts of city much similar to undivided India. Malegaon Municipal Corporation releases its meeting agenda's and proceedings in Urdu since 4th Dec 2013. Malegaon Muncipal Corporation has been named with freedom fighter and first indian education minister Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Bhawan, Malegaon. Malegaon is full of urdu lovers, poets, writers and journalists. Malegaon hosted ten days Urdu Festival starting from 3rd Jan 2014.
Malegaon Urdu book fair breaks NCPUL's all time best sale record Malegaon: Already in the headlines for breaking the opening day and Bangalore's sale record, the Malegaon Urdu Book Fair on Thursday recoded a total sale of more than fifty-five lakh rupees breaking the National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language's all time best sale record.
"The All India Urdu Book Fair organised by the National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL) in Malegaon has recorded a total sale of more than fifty-five lakh rupees in last seven days. This is more than the total sale in ten days of Mumbai's book fair which was organised by the NCPUL in January 2011", councils' research officer Khurram Shahanawaz said while talking to ummid.com.
Mumbai had recorded the total sale of Rs.53,00,000/-, which was NCPUL's best in 14 book fairs.
The Malegaon book fair had earlier broken the opening day sale record on Friday and on Sunday it surpassed the total ten-day sale of Bangalore book fair which was organised by the NCPUL in September 2013.
A total of 38 publishers from all across the country are showcasing Urdu books of different titles and on wide ranging topics in 62 stalls.
What makes Malegaon's sale record more significant that it is the first time the NCPUL has organised its book fair at a Taluka place.
"All our stocks finished within two days and we had to ask for fresh stock. We had not expected such a huge response. People are pouring in to visit the book fair and what is amazing is that most of them are purchasing books", Mrs Nazima Nikhat of Honey Books, New Delhi said while talking to the ummid.com.
Besides men of all ages, the book fair is attracting a large number of women and children. Though Ejaz Publishing House has recorded the maximum sales so far, the most sought after stall is Maktaba Al Hasanat, New Delhi which has recorded a sale of more than one lakh each day.
"The Book 'Zinda Rood', the biography of Allama Iqbal written by his son Javed Iqbal costing Rs.1200/-, has been the best-selling book so far. Among other best sellers are the books on religion, history, Geography, Medical, Science, Economics, Urdu literature and recipe besides a huge demand for children literature.
This successful URDU MELA was the result of particiation of urdu lover of Malegaon and suburban cities. Malegaon dwellers and urdu lovers spent their own money for the publicity of this event.
References
- "Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Malegaon". Fallingrain.com. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
- Template:GR
External links
- malegaononline.com
- Indian Express article: A Town Called Malegaon
- Indian Express article on Hyderabad & Malegaon Blasts
- Malegaon Blast in Pictures
- Film maker video parlour spoof
- Bollywood films cinema halls Malegon Ke Sholay
- Supermen of Malegaon at IMDb, a documentary about Muslim film fans from Malegaon and how they started making "Malegaonized" versions of Bollywood and Hollywood films.
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