Nandurbar

Nandurbar is an old town of Khandesh, near the country where Gujarat and Malwa meet the northern Deccan. Its surrounding fields produced millet and cotton, and cloth from the neighbouring countryside entered regional trade. In 1370 Malik Raja, the first Faruqi ruler of Khandesh, captured Nandurbar and Sultanpur, but was soon driven back by the ruler of Gujarat. In 1536 Muhammad Shah III of Gujarat granted the two places to Mubarak Khan Faruqi, fulfilling a promise made while he was confined at Asirgarh. Later in the century Akbar transferred the districts from Khandesh to Malwa. An inscription on a shrine and mosque outside Nandurbar records its construction during his reign.