Pachora

Pachora stands beside the Hivra River in Khandesh, a country of fields and market towns south of the Tapti. Faruqi rulers established their power in the region before the Mughals annexed Khandesh in 1601. In the seventeenth century the nearby market of Dharangaon was known for cloth and paper; an English trading factory was established there in 1674, before Shivaji's forces plundered the town the following year.