[3] Paranda has great historical value and finde mention in Honnati inscription of Baka 1045 (A.D. 1924) and also later a few of the Kalyan Chalukyan an copper plates.

The fort is attraction in this Paranda town and is known to have been built by Mahmud Gavan, the Prime Ministar of Muhammad Shah Bahmani 2.

Further it has a protective maat or khandak around connected with the fort by ance wooden draw bridge Some of the bastions in strategic places are mounted with huge cannons which can aver be seen today.

The earliest mention of the fort is found during the reign of Mahmud Shah Bahmani, when its command was given to a nobleman titled Khan Jahan.

The fort remained in the territory of the Bahmanids, and later their successor state, the Ahmadnagar Sultanate, ruled by the Nizam Shahi dynasty.

[4] After the capital of Ahmadnagar was conquered by the Mughal Empire, Paranda became the seat of the Nizam Shahis, and remained so almost until the end of the dynasty.