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Pune served as Monsoon Capital of Bombay Presidency during the British Era. The Bombay Presidency or Bombay Province was an administrative subdivision (province) of British India, with its capital in the city that came up over the seven islands of Bombay.

K. D. Jadhav became the first Indian to win an Olympic medal. He is best known as a wrestler who won a bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.

Maharashtra State Board of Secondary Education, Pune came in existence on 1^st January, 1966. The Board came into existence on 1^st January 1966 to regulate certain matters pertaining to secondary education in the state of Maharashtra, as "Maharashtra State Secondary Education Boards".

As an independent state Maharashtra came into existence on 1^st May, 1960. It was formed on 1^st May 1960 by splitting the bilingual Bombay State, which had existed since 1956, into majority Marathi-speaking Maharashtra and Gujarati-speaking Gujarat.

Maharashtra State Mining Corporation Ltd. (MSMC) is a limited company fully owned by the Government of Maharashtra incorporated under Companies Act, 1956 on 14^th November, 1973.

The most celebrated festival in Maharashtra as well as all over India, with a great faith and enthusiasm is Ganesh Chaturthi. It is celebrated for ten days with huge fan fare. Idols of Lord Ganesh can be found in all households while Sarvajink Ganpati Mandals set up roadside pandals (tents) where huge idols are placed.

Maharashtra prominently used for Coal in Thermal. Coal is burned in the boiler furnace to produce heat. The coal supply situation is recovering in Maharashtra, the country’s most industrialised state.

Bhil, Gond-Madia, Katkari, Koli, Oraon, Warli are the major tribes of Maharashtra.
Gond is the principal tribe of the Dravidian family and perhaps the most important of the non-Aryan or forest tribes in India.
Bhil is the largest tribal group in India as per 2011 Census. They constitute approximately 38% of the total scheduled tribal population of India.

Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar was a Marathi writer from Maharashtra. He was the first Marathi author to win the prestigious Jnanpith Award.