city, also spelt Indur , western Madhya Pradesh. The city is a major trunk road andjunction where metre-gauge and broad-gauge lines of the Western Railways meet, and is located on the Saraswati and Khan streams, which are tributaries of the Sipra river.Indore was founded in 1715 as a trade market on the Narmada river valley route by local landowners, who erected Indreshwar Temple (1741), from which the name Indore is derived. It became the capital of the former Indore princely state of the Maratha Holkars, and was the headquarters of the British Central India Agency and also the summer capital of Madhya Bharat (1948-56). The largest city in the state, Indore is the chief collecting and distributing centre for western Madhya Pradesh as well as a commercial and industrial centre. Major industries include manufacturing of textiles, tiles, cement, chemicals, tents, furniture, sporting goods, grain milling, and metalworking. There are auto and cycle workshops and engineering works as well. Old industries, which continue even today, include tanneries, oil mills, pottery, lac bangles as well as handloom weaving, printing and dyeing, and niwar making. Latta ( latha ) and Nainkala are the types of cotton cloth manufactured here.Indore is the seat of Devi Ahilya University (founded in 1964 as the University of Indore), with numerous constituent and affiliated colleges in the city including the Holkar Science College and Indore Christian College. Some other notable institutions are: the Centre for Advanced Technology (CAT), Department of Atomic Energy; the Indian Institute of Management (IIM); Government Training Institute for Women. Indore also has a number of Ayurvedic and allopathic hospitals and training institutes. Places of interest in Indore are the Indreshwar Temple, Harsiddhi temple, Kanch Mandir (Jain), Rajawada, the Lalbagh palace and a number of other royal palaces, cenotaphs, and chhatri s. Indore is also the headquarters of the Kasturbagram Ashrams. Literacy rate in Indore is 64.21 per cent. Population (2001) 2,585,321.