Mhow

Mhow officially known as Dr Ambedkar Nagar, is a cantonment in the Indore district in Madhya Pradesh state of India. It is found 23 kilometers 14 mi south-west of Indore city, towards Mumbai on the old Mumbai-Agra Road. The town was renamed as Dr Ambedkar Nagar in 2003, by the Government of Madhya Pradesh. A few articles in well known writing state that MHOW remains for Military Headquarters Of War. Notwithstanding, this is a backronym, and there is no verification to help the hypothesis that the name of the town originates from the acronym.

The town close Mhow was called Mhow Gaon in the pre-British time, when English was not utilized in India. The Cantonment which came up in 1818 came to be known as Mhow Cantt after the name of this town. Sir John Malcolm spelt the name of this town as MOW in his compositions. The 1918 version of Encyclopædia Britannica likewise specifies 'MAU'. Nonetheless, the Cantonment was alluded to by British officers as Mhow at any rate as ahead of schedule as the finish of 1823. Mhow has a lovely atmosphere as a general rule, anyway the pinnacle summer and winter periods may get amazingly sweltering and cool, individually. Temperatures may go as high as 43 degrees Celsius amid summers and as low as 4 degrees Celsius amid winter.