Shree Mahavir Courier Branches in Dhar

About Dhar — A Brief History

Dhar is one of the oldest seats of learning and royalty in Malwa, mentioned in early medieval Sanskrit literature as Dhara, the capital of the Paramara king Bhoja in the eleventh century. King Bhoja, remembered as a polymath and patron of grammarians, mathematicians and poets, made his court a centre of Sanskrit scholarship, and the surviving Bhojshala pavilion in the heart of the modern town still bears traces of inscribed slabs from his temple-school. The town also gives its name to the regional Dhari script preserved in palm-leaf manuscripts.

The Indo-Islamic Dhar fort built later by the sultans of Malwa rises over the town in red sandstone, while just thirty-five kilometres south lies Mandu, the dramatic plateau city of Hoshang Shah and Baz Bahadur. Mandu's Jahaz Mahal floating between two lakes, its Hindola Mahal and the marble tomb of Hoshang Shah the model studied by Shah Jahan's architects before they designed the Taj sit within Dhar district and continue to define its tourism circuit. The Rupmati pavilion and the Roopmati-Baz Bahadur love legend draw their own steady stream of visitors.

Modern Dhar is the headquarters of an agricultural belt of cotton, soybean and chillies, and host to the Pithampur industrial estate near Indore that draws automobile and pharmaceutical units. The Bagh caves with their fading Buddhist murals and the weaver town of Maheshwar fall along the district's southern edge. From Pithampur supplier dispatch heading to Pune and Chennai to Maheshwari sari consignments leaving the weavers' cooperatives, Shree Mahavir Courier's Dhar branches handle the steady flow of factory consignments, tourist paperwork and household parcels every working day.