During his confinement by the British at Ahmednagar Fort in 1944, Nehru wrote the book The Discovery of India.

[8] Ahmednagar is home to the Indian Armoured Corps Centre & School (ACC&S), the Mechanised Infantry Regimental Centre (MIRC), the Vehicle Research and Development Establishment (VRDE) and the Controllerate of Quality Assurance Vehicles (CQAV).

[9] Ahmednagar is a relatively small town and shows less development than the nearby western Maharashtra cities of Mumbai and Pune.

[10] Ahmednagar took its name from Ahmad Nizam Shah I, who founded the town in 1494[11] on the site of a battlefield where he won a battle against superior Bahamani forces.

[13] The town Ahmednagar was founded in 1494 by Ahmad Nizam Shah I on the site of a more ancient city, Bhingar.

Aurangzeb, the last Mughal emperor, who spent the latter years of his reign, 1681–1707, in the Deccan, died in Ahmednagar and is buried at Khuldabad, near Aurangabad in 1707, with a small monument marking the site.

On 31 May 2023, Eknath Shinde (the chief minister of Maharashtra) announced that Ahmednagar would be renamed "Ahilya Nagar", in honour of Ahilyabai Holkar[16] who was Rani of Indore, within the Maratha Confederacy in the late 18th-century.

[18] Rais Shaikh (group leader of the Samajwadi Party in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly) said that "The Maha Yuti government is implementing the 'Yogi pattern' of creating an illusion of development by changing the names of cities without doing anything for development"[19] and accused the government of "distorting history".

[5] Ahmednagar is home to: Training and recruitment for the Indian Army Armored Corps take place at the ACC&S.

Formerly, the city was the Indian base of the British Army's Royal Tank Corps/Indian Armored Corps, amongst other units.

The town houses the second-largest display of military tanks in the world and the largest in Asia.

[20][failed verification] Situated in the rain shadow region of the Western Ghats, Ahmednagar has a hot semi-arid climate (Köppen BSh).

The seaplane port is located at the Mula Dam water reservoir, 30 minutes away from Ahmednagar City.

Ahmednagar has rail connectivity with Pune, Manmad, Kopargaon, Shirdi, Daund, Goa, Nasik and other metro-cities like New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Ahmedabad.

[citation needed] There is still a demand for direct rail connectivity to other major cities of India.

It has four lane road connectivity to: National Highway 222 from Kalyan to Nirmal near Adilabad in Telangana passes through the city.