Guru Gobind Singh Ji came south with Bahadur Shah's camp and stopped at Nanded on the Godavari in 1708. It was here that he met Madho Das, who became Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Ji, and sent him north.
He was stabbed at Nanded by an assassin, recovered, and the wound reopened. Before he died in October 1708 he installed the Guru Granth Sahib Ji as the eternal Guru, ending the line of personal Gurus.
Takht Sri Hazur Sahib Abchalnagar stands on the site. The present building was built under Ranjit Singh Ji's patronage.
The practice at Hazur Sahib differs from mainstream Punjab practice on several points, including the use of arms in ritual and the presence of certain rites the Rehat Maryada does not prescribe. It follows its own maryada and is administered under Maharashtra state law.
A permanent Punjabi community has lived at Nanded since the eighteenth century, speaking a Punjabi that separated from Punjab's three hundred years ago.
Guru Gobind Singh Ji died at Nanded in 1708, and it is where the Guruship passed to the Guru Granth Sahib Ji, which makes it the site of the tradition's central constitutional act.
The maryada there differs from Amritsar's in several particulars, and those differences are old and are periodically argued about.
The gurdwara was built under Maharaja Ranjit Singh Ji. The community around it, largely Marathi-speaking Sikhs descended from the Guru's escort, has been there three centuries.