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{{short description|Village in Maharashtra}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2017}}
{{Use Indian English|date=April 2017}}
{{Infobox settlement
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| image_skyline = Chintamani Kalamb 1.jpg
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| image_caption = Shree Chintamani of Kalamb
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Maharashtra, India
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| subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Maharashtra]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Yavatmal district|Yavatmal]]
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| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
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| postal_code = 445401
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| area_code = 07201
| registration_plate = MH-29
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'''Kalamb''' is a town in [[Yavatmal district]] of [[Maharashtra]] state in [[India]]. It is famous today for its temple devoted to the [[Hindu]] god [[Ganesha]] and [[muslim]] [[scholar]] [[Baba (honorific)|baba]] [[basuri]] wale. The temple is known as Shree Chintamani Temple, based on another name for Ganesh that emphasizes the belief that praying to him can remove worries ('[[Chinta (mentation)|Chinta]]' means worry in [[Sanskrit]] and in local [[Marathi language|Marathi]] language). It belongs to [[Vidarbha Ashtavinayak]], one of the eight Ganapati kshetras in [[Vidarbha]]. It is one of the 21 Kshetras of Ganesh throughout India. An annual fair of Shree Chintamani is held here. it is also famous for [[mosque]] jama masjid so beautiful in vidharb twin =
The Chakravati River flows through Kalamb city.
It has an average elevation of 283 metres.

It is not widely known that this otherwise unimportant village today was surprisingly an important revenue assessment center under the [[Mughal Empire]] in early seventeenth century as the capital of a Sarkar (sub-unit of a [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] Subah) of the same name, earlier spelled as 'Kalam'.<ref>{{cite book|last= Schwartzberg |first= Joseph E. |authorlink= Joseph E. Schwartzberg |title= The Historic Atlas of South Asia |publisher= [[University of Chicago Press]] |year= 1978 |page= 45 |url= https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/schwartzberg/pager.html?object=082 }}, Plate VI.A.2</ref>

Today, Kalamb is administrative center of a Taluka (sub-district) also called Kalamb. The Taluka has a population of about 96 thousand (2001 Census) and has over 140 villages. It is part of [[Vidarbha]] region. Vidarbha, was called Berar by the British and by the Mughals earlier. It was part of Central Provinces and Berar in British India between 1903 and 1947, and was part of [[Nizam of Hyderabad]]'s territory until 1903.

==Transport==

===By bus===
Kalamb is on [[National Highway 361|Yavatmal-Nagpur highway]]. You will find plenty of buses throughout the day and late night from [[Nagpur]] & [[Yavatmal]]. There are also buses plying from [[Amravati]], [[Akola]].

===By rail===
The nearest railway station is Dhamangaon and [[Wardha]] which is on [[Mumbai–Nagpur Expressway|Mumbai-Nagpur route]].but under construction as part of railway line from [[Wardha]] to [https://nanded.gov.in/ Nanded].

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060512213351/http://www.shreedarshan.com/spchintamani.htm Chintamani Temple, Kalamb]
* [http://yavatmal.nic.in/ Official Site of Yavatmal District]
{{Maharashtra}}
{{Yavatmal district topics}}
[[Category:Villages in Yavatmal district]]
[[Category:Talukas in Maharashtra]]

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