Devi Ahilyabai Holkar: Things to know about on her birth anniversary
Ahilya Bai was born in 1725 into a Marathi Hindu family to Mankoji Shinde and Sushila Shinde in the Chaundi village (present-day Ahmednagar district) of Maharashtra, where her father, Mankoji Shinde, a scion of a respectable Dhangar family, served as the Patil.
Ahilya Bai built hundreds of temples and Dharmashalas across India.