Daudnagar
Sign in to saveDaudnagar (ISO: Dāūdanagara) is a town and the subdivisional headquarter of Daudnagar Subdivision in Aurangabad district in the state of Bihar, India under the Magadh division. Until 1991, there was only one Subdivision in the Aurangabad district: Aurangabad Sadar. On 31 March 1991, one other subdivision, Daudnagar, was created. Daudnagar is a 200-year-old historical city and its living proof is Daudnagar has an old historical fort situated on the eastern bank of the Son River. National Highway NH139 which connects Jharkhand's Palamu district to Patna, passes through the town.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Daudnagar
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India Bihar#India#Asia
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_alt
- Bihar
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Bihar##Location in India##Location in Asia
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Division
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Bihar
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Magadh
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Aurangabad
- Settlement.founder
- Daud Khan Qureshi
- Settlement.government_type
- Municipal council
- Settlement.governing_body
- Nagar Parishad Daudnagar
- Settlement.leader_title2
- Chairperson
- Settlement.leader_name2
- Anjali Kumari
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Wikidata facts
- Elevation
- 84
- Dialing code
- 6328
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- postal code
- 824143
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Daudnagar (ISO: Dāūdanagara) is a town and the subdivisional headquarter of Daudnagar Subdivision in Aurangabad district in the state of Bihar, India under the Magadh division. Until 1991, there was only one Subdivision in the Aurangabad district: Aurangabad Sadar. On 31 March 1991, one other subdivision, Daudnagar, was created. Daudnagar is a 200-year-old historical city and its living proof is Daudnagar has an old historical fort situated on the eastern bank of the Son River. National Highway NH139 which connects Jharkhand's Palamu district to Patna, passes through the town.
==History== Daudnagar was founded by Daud Khan. The area between Daudnagar and Aurangabad assumed great strategic importance when Daud Khan, Aurangzeb's Subedar in Bihar, marched against the Raja of Palamu. As a mark of victory against the Raja in the year 1664, Daud Khan founded the city of Daudnagar. Daud Khan Qureshi was an Indian Muslim Shaikhzada native of Hisar (city) in Haryana, then called Hisar Firuza. The surrounding area was also granted to him as a Jagir by the emperor. Early in the 18th century, Buchanan saw it as a flourishing town with cloth and opium factories. The Sarai, built by Daud Khan was possibly intended to serve as a stronghold, as it was well-fortified with a battlemented wall, two large gates and a surrounding moat. In the outlying part of the town, called Ahmadganj, lies the tomb of Ahmad Khan.
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