Jalna district

Jalna is an administrative in the state of  in. The district headquarters are located at. The district occupies an of 7718  and has a population of 1,612,980 of which 19.09% were urban. 

History
Jalna district was carved out from in 1981.

Battle of Assaye
The Battle of Assaye was fought in, near the village of  in south-central. It was one of the decisive battles of the. Assaye is located near in Jalna district of. The battle was a decisive one in which the British were led by none other than, who later became Duke of Wellington, and later the British Prime Minister.

In charge of a British and army of some 13,500 men, General Arthur Wellesley took on a major Indian force at least three times the size of his own at Assaye. The General later on went to defeat in the  in 1814. He himself describes the battle of Assaye as one of his finest battles.

The city of Jalna still bears ruins of a sprawling British Cantonment with an old cemetery still having graves of those killed in the Assaye battle.

Samarth Ramdas Swami
was a Hindu saint. He was born at Jamb Samarth, Taluk Ghansavangi, District Jalna, on Chaitra Shukla Navami Shake 1530, according to the. He was the younger son of Suryajipant Thosar Kulkarni and Ranubai. His actual name was Narayan.

Ramdas Swami wrote the Holy Scriptures , Manache Shloak and many more s. He coined the religious  Jai Jai Raghuveer Samarth.

He built  in many villages across Maharashtra for the purpose of bringing discipline to youths.

He was also the Guru of, and guided him during establishment of the.

Famous residents

 * Bhagwan Kale, writer and journalist; author of the Marathi book Aapla Jalna Zilla (English translation: Our Jalna Zilla).
 * Dasoo Vaidya,, , scriptwriter, and ; head of Department of Marathi at Barwale College, Jalna.
 * Janardan Nagapurkar, popularly known as Janardan Mama, who played an important role in the Marathwada Mukti Sangram, in which he lost his life.
 * Badrinarayn Barwale, founder of Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Company (Mahyco); also a freedom fighter who fought against the.
 * Deepak N. Modi,.
 * Vishnu Ghule, artist.