Ambajogai, (also called Ambejogai or Ambanagari) is a

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and subdivision in

Beed district Beed district (Marathi pronunciation: iːɖ is an administrative district in the state of Maharashtra in India. The district headquarters are located at Beed. The district occupies an area of 10,693 km² and has a population of 2,585,049 ...

in the state of

Maharashtra Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...

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. Ambajogai is known as

cultural capital In the field of sociology, cultural capital comprises the social assets of a person (education, intellect, style of speech, style of dress, etc.) that promote social mobility in a stratified society. Cultural capital functions as a social relat ...

Marathwada Marathwada () is a proposed state and geographical region of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It was formed during the Nizam's rule and was part of the then Hyderabad State. The region coincides with the Aurangabad division of Maharashtra. ...

. The town is named as Ambajogai after goddess Ambabai -

Yogeshwari Yogeshvari (Sanskrit: योगेश्वरी), also rendered Jogeshvari, is an epithet of the Hindu goddess Durga. The term is a contraction of Yoga-īśvarī, meaning the 'goddess of yoga'. Veneration Many Brahmins of Western India, suc ...

whose heritage temple is located here and are visited by people all over from Maharashtra, largely from the

Konkan The Konkan ( kok, कोंकण) or Kokan () is a stretch of land by the western coast of India, running from Damaon in the north to Karwar in the south; with the Arabian Sea to the west and the Deccan plateau in the east. The hinterland ...

region. The town has many heritage places and this township is known as the cultural capital of the Marathwada region. The town has other heritage temples like Sakleshwar and 12 Khambhi temple, Kholeshwar mandir,

Mukundraj Mukundraj (IAST: Mukundarāja) was one of the earliest Marathi literary figures poet. Some earlier scholars dated him to the 12th century. Scholars do not have unanimity among them about the place where Mukundraj mostly lived. He was probably bo ...

cave and

Dasopant Dasopant (1551-1615) belonged to the Datta sect. He was born in a Deshastha Brahmin family in the village of Narayan Peth. He was the son of Digambarpant, an official of Bidar's Barid Shahi kingdom, responsible for collecting land revenue and ha ...

Swami Samadhi, Mukundraj samadhi, Kashivishwanath, Amruteshwar.Ambojgai - Beed
/ref> There is an ancient cave called

Shivleni Caves The Shivleni Caves (Shiva leni; Jogai Mandap; Hattikhana) in Ambajogai, Maharashtra, India are rock-cut cave monuments which date in King Udayaditya (reigned c. 1060–1087) from Paramara dynasty of Malwa. Total excavations were hewn out of ...

''(Hattikhana)'' or Jogai Mandap declared as a heritage point (Archaeological sites in Maharashtra), where Lord Shankar, Nandi and Elephants are carved in stone. Shiva, Bramha, and Vishnu is also in carved in Stone.

History

The town has been a cultural center in the region from the ancient times. The Jogai Temple, Kholeshwar Temple and Barakhambi temples hints the cultural prosperity of the town dating back to 10th century AD. The town was under the regime of

Nizam of Hyderabad The Nizams were the rulers of Hyderabad from the 18th through the 20th century. Nizam of Hyderabad (Niẓām ul-Mulk, also known as Asaf Jah) was the title of the monarch of the Hyderabad State ( divided between the state of Telangana, Mar ...

before the accession of

Hyderabad state Hyderabad State () was a princely state located in the south-central Deccan region of India with its capital at the city of Hyderabad. It is now divided into the present-day state of Telangana, the Kalyana-Karnataka region of Karnataka, and t ...

to the dominion of India. Many heritage sites and temples were harmed during this period. It was a military base of the Hyderabad state army. The stable of the horses of the cavalry of the

Hyderabad army The Hyderabad State Forces were the armed forces of the princely state of Hyderabad. People from both India and abroad were recruited into the Forces. Among these groups were Arab nationals like Chaush and African nationals like Siddi's who now ...

was later turned into a hospital and medical college which later was named as

Swami Ramanand Teerth Rural Medical College Swami Ramanand Teerth Rural Government Medical College is a state medical institution in Ambajogai, district Beed Beed (Marathi pronunciation: iːɖ is a city in Marathwada region of Maharashtra state in India. It is the administrative ...

.Brief history of Ambajogai - The Gazetteers Beed District
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Demographics

India

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, Ambajogai had a population of 74,844. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Ambajogai has an average literacy rate of 85.89%, higher than the national average of 74.04%; with 91.58% of the males and 79.88% of females literate. 12% of the population is under 6 years of age.

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