01A Holkar cantonment
After the Holkar army was beaten at Mahidpur in December 1817, the treaty of Mandsaur in January 1818 bound Indore to keep a British force. Sir John Malcolm chose the high ground at Mhow, on the Malwa plateau above the Narmada valley, for the cantonment. On 1 July 1857 the Indian troops at Mhow rose and killed several of their officers before marching to join the rising elsewhere. The town has stayed an army town: the Infantry School and the Army War College are here.
02Bhim Janmabhoomi
Ramji Maloji Sakpal, a subedar of the Mahar community in the Company’s army, was posted at Mhow when his fourteenth child, Bhimrao, was born on 14 April 1891. The family left when Ramji retired a couple of years later and settled in the Konkan and then Satara. In 1991, the centenary of the birth, the foundation of a memorial was laid on the site, and the Bhim Janmabhoomi memorial, built in the form of a stupa, opened in 2008. The town was renamed Dr. Ambedkar Nagar in 2003. Every 14 April lakhs come here to pay homage.
The life of this place
- 1818Treaty of Mandsaur; the Mhow cantonment is founded.
- 1 July 1857The troops at Mhow rise.
- 14 April 1891Bhimrao Ambedkar is born at Mhow.
- 2003Mhow is renamed Dr. Ambedkar Nagar.
- 2008The Bhim Janmabhoomi memorial opens.
