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Some articles in popular literature state that 'MHOW' stands for '''M'''ilitary '''H'''eadquarters '''O'''f '''W'''ararfare. However, this is a [[backronym]], and there is no proof to support the theory that the name of the village comes from the acronym. The village near Mhow was called Mhow Gaon in the [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]]/[[Maratha Empire|Maratha]] eras, when English was not used in India. The [[Cantonment]] which came up in 1818 during the [[Third Anglo-Maratha War]], came to be known as Mhow Cantt after the name of this village. [[Sir John Malcolm]] spelt the name of this town as MOW in his writings. The 1918 edition of Encyclopædia Britannica also mentions 'MAU

This cantonment town was founded in 1818 by [[John Malcolm]] as a result of the [[Treaty of Mandsaur]] between the English and the [[House of Holkar|Holkar]]s who were the [[Maratha Empire|Maratha]] [[Maharaja]]s of Indore. John Malcolm's forces had defeated the Holkars of the [[Maratha Empire|Maratha Confederacy]] at the [[Battle of Mahidpur]] on 21 December 1817. It was after this battle that the capital of the Holkars moved from the town of [[Maheshwar]] on the banks of the [[Narmada]] to Indore.

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