Brief
About Burhanpur District
Burhanpur District is a famous for medieval History.
Burhanpur town was used by Moghuls to control south India. It is
situated at the Bank of Tapti River. Asirgarh fort was known as
"Dakhkhan ka darwaza" . without wining this fort it was
impossible to have control on southern india. Maharastra Border
touches the District. Nepa news Print mill is situated in this District
In 1536 A.D., the Mughal Emperor Humayun, after his conquest
of Gujarat, had visited Burhanpur and Asirgarh via Baroda, Broach
(Bharuch) & Surat. Raja Ali Khan (1576-1596 A.D.), also known
as Adil Shah, was asked to submit to Akbar, when the latter had
sent an expedition to Khandesh, in the summer of 1577 A.D. The
former, to avoid the unequal contest with the mighty Akbar, dropped
his royal title of Shah and accepted the Suzerainty of Akbar.
This marked an epoch in the Deccan policy of the Mughals, for
Khandesh was used as a base for the future Conquest of Deccan.
Raja Ali Khan constructed many buildings like Jama Masjid in the
upper portion of the fort of Asir in 1588 A.D., Jama Masjid at
Burhanpur in 1590 A.D., Idgah at Asir, mausoleums & Serai
at Burhanpur and Serai & Mosque at Zainabad
Bahadur Khan (1596-1600 A.D.) successor of Raja Ali Khan declared
his independence & refused to pay homage to Akbar & his
son Prince Daniyal, which enraged Akbar, who marched towards Burhanpur
in 1599 and occupied the City without any opposition on 8th April
1600 A.D. Akbar paid a visit to Asirgarh, so as to inspect it
personally, where he stayed for 4 days before returning to his
Head Quarter at Burhanpur.
ShahJahan's Operation
Prince Khurram was nominated as the Governor of the Deccan in
1617 AD, by Jahangir to succeed Prince Parviz, and was bestowed
the title of Shah by Jahangir. Khurram led the Mughal army to
a peaceful victory by which Jahangir was pleased with his success
& conferred him the title of Shah Jahan on 12th October, 1617
AD. After the death of Jahangir in 1627, Shah Jahan ascended the
throne of Mughal empire. Due to troubled conditions in the Deccan,
he reached Burhanpur (Deccan) on the 1st March 1630, where he
stayed for the following two years, conducting operations against
Bijapur, Ahmadnagar, and Golkunda. On 7th June 1631, Shah Jahan
lost his beloved & favourite wife Mumtaz Mahall at Burhanpur,
and her body was buried at first in the Garden of Zainabad, across
the river Tapti. Early in December of the same year (1631 AD),
the remains of her body were sent to Agra. Later on 6th March
1632, Shah Jahan left Burhanpur for the north, after appointing
Mahabat Khan as the viceroy of the Deccan.
Modern History
From the mid 16th Century to the early 18th century, the Nimar
region (including Burhanpur, East Nimar,West Nimar Barwani District),
was under the rule/impact of Aurangzeb, Bahadur Shah (Mughals),
Peshwas, Sindhia, Holkar & Pawar (Marathas ), Pindaris etc.
Later from early part of the mid 18th century, the management
of the Nimar region came under the British.
The Burhanpur district did not remain unaffected by the Great
Uprising of 1857, which swept the country, against the British
rule. In connection with the so called Riots of 1857, Tatya Tope
had gone through the region of Nimar and before marching out of
the region, burnt the police stations and Govt. buildings at Khandwa,
Piplod and a number of other places and escaped again to central
India by way of Khargone.
The Burhanpur district was greatly affected with the beginning
of freedom movement, Non-Co-operation movement, Civil Disobedience
movement, Quit India Movement etc., to obtain the Independence
of the Motherland India, from late 18th century till 15th August
1947. During this time Near by District Khandwa was visited by
Swami Dayanad Saraswati of Arya Samaj fame, Swami Vivekanand,the
great monk & founder of Ramkrishna Mission, Mahatma Gandhiji
in 1921, Lokmanya Tilak etc.
Young Nationalists of the Nimar Region, like Haridas Chatterjee,
Makhanlal Chaturvedi, Thakur Laxman Singh, Abdul Quadir Siddique
has attended the Calcutta Session of Congress in 1917. Tilak has
visited Khandwa during his whirl-wind tour to central province
in 1918. The district did not fail to make its contribution in
non-co-operative movement. Civil Disobedience Movement of 1930
has also been participated by many people of the district. Editor
of swarajya S.M.Agarkar was also arrested and imprisoned. Nav
Jawan Sabha was established at Khandwa in 1931. Students had also
participated in this movement.
The District was created from East Nimar District and declared
as separate district on 15th August 2003.Burhanpur town became
the District HQ.
Collector ( Office Suptd.),Burhanpur
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Khaknar Tehsil is formed from Burhanpur Tehsil after 2001 census.
Hence the data of two tehsils are merged in the data of Burhanpur
Tehsil in above table.
District Burhanpur is located in Tapti valley . It touches the
northern border of the Maharashtra State. it is divided in 2 development
blocks namely Burhanpur and Khaknar. It is consisting of 3 tehsils
namely Nepanagar, Burhanpur & Khaknar. From Agriculture point
of view district is very good. The major crops of the district
are : Cotton, Banana, Sugarcane, wheat, chilly etc. Major occupation
of district is agriculture. Handloom industry is also live in
Burhanpur town.
