Thalner

Thalner stands on the Tapti River, beneath a fort that served as the first capital of the Faruqi rulers of Khandesh. At the foot of the fort is a stone temple dedicated to Thaleshwar, from which the town may take its name. In 1370 Firuz Shah Tughlaq granted Malik Raja Faruqi an estate in this country, and Malik chose Thalner as his headquarters.

After Malik's death in 1399, the fort passed to his younger son Iftikar Khan. His elder son Nasir Khan took it in 1417 with the help of the sultan of Malwa. Thalner later suffered invasion from Gujarat and passed to Akbar in 1600. The traveller Tavernier described it in 1660 as a trading place on the road between Surat and Burhanpur. In the eighteenth century it came under the Holkars, who held it until 1818.