Aurangabad (Deccan)

Aurangabad, in the Deccan region of Maharashtra, west-central India, was named for the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, who used it as a base for his Deccan campaigns; the family of the journalist-ideologue Abul A'la Mawdudi (d. 1979), founder of the Jama'at-i Islami, was rooted in the Aurangabad area, where he was born in 1903.