Azimabad

Azimabad (Hindi: अज़ीमाबाद, Urdu: عظیم آباد) was the name of modern-day Patna during the eighteenth century, prior to the British Raj.

This event is arguably seen by modern historians and scholars as a milestone in the decline of Buddhism in India.

Long before Pataliputra was conquered, however, most of the ancient city was abandoned in the seventh century of the Common Era[3] but revived more than 800 years later during the rule of Pashtun emperor Sher Shah Suri as Patna.

The last custodian of Pargenah Haweli Azimabad, was Nawab Haji Syed Ahmad Ali Khan Bahadur of Doolighat, who received it as a jagir, from the then emperor Alamgir II.

Patna is the most common way of referring to Bihar's capital city from the colonial period onward.