History

Indore boasts of a history so glorious and royal, I wonder why it has been overlooked so. It was in its nascent stages, a small temple town on the bank of River Saraswati with rivers on all sides.
Rao Nandlal Chaudhary, the founder of Indore thought it to be a strategically safe location because Malwa was at that time under constant attack from Maratha invaders and so built the fort of Shree Sansthan Bada Rawala to protect the citizens in 1713. The city was named Indrapur because of the temple of Lord Indreshwar. Eventually the city came to be ruled by the Maratha Maharaja's of the Holkar Dynasty important among them being the dynasty's founder Malhar Rao Holkar(1694-1766) and his daughter-in-law Ahilyabai Holkar(1725-1795).
After independence in 1947, Indore became part Madhya Bharat and then Madhya Bharat became Madhya Pradesh.
The rest as we all know............. is history and in wikipedia. You'll find the rest there. I am not about to publish an encylopedia. :p


Source:Wikipedia

P.S: There is an amazing collection of paintings of the Maharajas of the old in the main assembly hall in the The Daly College, Indore. Go check it out.