Old pune

OLD PUNE

MEORIESCompiled by-

Dr.Avinash Bhondwe

पुण्याच्या भुईवर सोन्याचा नांगर पाचपन्नास पावलंनांगरण्यासाठी फि�रला. याच भुईवर सहा वर्षांा�पूवीर ्फिवजापूरच्या वजीरखवासखानाच्या हुकुमानं गाढव जुंपलेला नांगर फि�रला होताढोल-लेझि(मीच्या तालावर सहा वर्षांा�च्या शि*वबाच्या आशि- आऊसाहेबांच्या सोन्याच्या नांगराभोवती �ेर धरून उसळत नाचत होत्या

SHANIWARWADA

Shaniwarwada- Bazar 1900

1900

Shaniwarwada- 1900Bullock carts passing through

Shaniwarwada- The place used to be a play ground & for Big Ceremonies

The almost ruined Palace of the Peshwas on November 25, 1960.

In side Shaniwarwada

Shaniwarwada Inside view

Chimna Bagh at Shaniwarwada.

Aerial View of Shaniwarwada with Parvati1940

PARVATI&

SARASBAUG

A painting depicting Shrimant Nanasaheb Peshwa's boat ride in the "Sarasbaug" Lake

Parvati-1849

1875 PRINCE WALESVisits Parvati on Elephants

Visit of Prince of Wells1875

The DevdeveshwarMandir at Parvati1876

This print shows a distant view of the temple on Parbaty or Parvati Hill, built by Peshwa Balaji Rao in about 1758,

taken by an unknown photographer in the 1860s.

Photograph of a distant view of the temple on Parbati Hill in Pune from the 'Lee-Warner Collection: 'Bombay Presidency. William Lee Warner C.S.' taken by an unknown photographer in the 1870s

Palace of the Peshwas and temple of Parvati, Poona. 3 January 1868.

Pencil drawing of Parbati Hill near Pune in Maharashtra by George Boyd dated to 1832

Talyatala Ganpati with Parvati view

A distant view of the temple Parvati Hill with the Lake –dated in 1860s.

Parvati in 1900

View of Parvati 1904

Photograph of Parvati Hill in the 1870s.

ParvatiSeenFrom Erandavane Farm1910

DEVDEVESHWAR Mandir Parvati-

Old Pune City from Parvati

The Devdeveshwar Temple On Parvati Hill Has Witnessed The Miracles Of Faith

As Well As The Vagaries Of History

Parvati Temple -1876

Parvati Temple- 1905

DEVDEVESHWAR Mandir Parvati- 1910

In 1870

An overview of Pune city, the capital of the state of Maharashtra is seen from Parvati on January 1, 1945

Parvati & Mutha Canal

Parvati Temple- 1900

Saras baug

HISTORIC PERIOD

BRFORE PESHWA’S

Songatyancha Khel

Kasba-Ganpati

A drawing of the Pataleshvara or Panchaleshvara cave

temple- 1860

Pataleshwar Caves- 1803

Pataleshwar Caves- Next to JM Temple

A haggadah published for the Bene Israel community in India,( Poona, 1874). features seder illustrations that show Indian dress and customs

JEWS IN

PUNE

Navgraha Ganjifa Cards printed in Pune in1911Now in Raja Kelkar Museum

Trishund Ganpati Temple

Trishund Ganpati

Remains of a 600 year old temple at Bhosari which was destroyed 3 years ago to be replaced by a modern

cement temple

PESHAVE KAAL

'Scindea Pet from the Horse Artillery Lines Poona. Decr. 1831 W.M.'

Mastani’s Grave at Pabal

Omkareshwar mandir is a part of Pune legacy and heritage and a must see for the tourists

AMRUTESHWAR Mandir

Mastani Talav

VISHRAMBAUGWADA1900

Vishrambaugwada -1960

Vishrambaugwada

Inside Vishrambaug

Inside Vishrambaug wada

Vishrambaugwada- Note 50 yrs ago there were no Hawkers

NAGARKHANA.Ram Mandir

Vishrambaugwada

Vishrambaugwada (left) has no fire extinguisher within its 5,000 sq feet wooden structure and Nanawada (right) has bad electrification system

Raste Wada

Nana Wada, which was rebuilt during the British era with typical neo-Gothic arches.

Only a part of the original wada remains to this day.

१६ जानेवारी १७७९

वडगावच्या मराठ्यांच्या विवजयाचे स्मारक

Belbag old

Vitthalvadi Mandir

SADGURU Shree Jangali Maharaj

Jangali Maharaj Mandir

Shri Jangli Maharaj Mandir

Baji Rao II signing the treaty of Bassein

Mahadaji ShindeA great Maratha Warrior

& Statesman

Shindyanchi Chhatri

The Samadhi of Mahadhji Shinde at Shinde Chattri

Shivmandir

INSIDEChatri

Mahadji Shinde samadhi

Madhavrao Peshve’s Darbar Artist: Thomas Daniell, commissioned by Sir Charles Malet circa 1805

RaghunathraoPeshwe-Raghoba Dada

Shrimant NarayanraoPeshwe

Sawai Madhav Rao, Maratha Peshwa and Nana Fadnavis with Attendants, 1792

Sawai Madhav Rao, Maratha Peshwa and Nana Fadnavis with Attendants, 1792

Peshwe and his ministers at Poona. Drawn from an original sketch belonging to Sir Charles Malet Bart.

1875 India Arch Poonah Madhava Hunting Palace

Old Wada -1875Place unknown

Shikar Swari

'Countryhouse of Holkar in ruins nr. Artillery lines - Poonah'

'Countryhouse of Holkar. Nr. Artillery lines - Poonah'

Nanasaheb Peshve- at the time- when captured by British Army

Anglo- Maratha Wars

Cover about a book on Bajirao Peshwe II

Mount Stuart ElphinstoneLast Resident of British

To Peshwe1810-1818

PAINTING OF BAJIRAO II SIGNING TREATY OF BASSEIN WITH THE BRITISH, In 1818DISPLAYED AT RAJA DINKAR KELKAR MUSEUM PUNE

Nana PhadnavisChief Minister1750-1800

A story was published in the Madras Gazette (and later in the Gentleman's Magazine, London, October 1794) about an Indian bullock driver with the English army named Cowasjee who had his nose and one hand amputated by Sultan Tippoo

during the war of 1792. The nose was reconstructed one year later by a man of the brick maker caste near Poonah. The operation was not uncommon in India and had been practised from time immemorial. A thin plate of wax is fitted to the stump of the nose so as to make a nose of good appearance. It is then flattened and laid on the forehead where a line is drawn around it. The forehead flap is cut with a razor, turned down and inserted into an incision to form the nose. The connecting slip of skin is divided about the 25th day.

BRITISH

PERIOD

Poona Hunt Stakes 1877 Horses Polo Pony Race Old Print

1st Battalion Worcestershire RegimentalFootball Team at Poona 1900's

British memsahib in India

'A Sketch in the suburbs of the City of Poona. September 1871'

RECEPTION AT POONA (1882)The weekly garden party at Government House, attended by colonial officials and local notables

MARATHA WARS – 1816Lieutenant Pattinson retakes a captured gun near Poona.

Departure from Pune - 1878

Poona- 1878

The 2 nd battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment – POONA GUARDS

1875 PRINCE WALES INDIA TROOPS POONAH SOLDIERS HORSES

- Indian Sketches Pie-Sticking Poonah Pie Sticking Sport

POONA Light HorsePOLO Player

C 1900

BOATCLUB - 1877

Pune View 1875

Salt, Henry : Poonah, plate XIII, engraved by Daniel Havell 1785-1826 ( 1809)

'A Street in the City of Poona [Pune]. 29th August 1871.

'A Sketch in the suburbs of the City of Poonah. September 1871'

'The Jakkat Mahal and Bridge City of Poona [Pune]. 9th October 1871'.

Pen-and-ink and wash drawing of Major Augustus Grafton's house at Pune (Poona) in Maharashtra

'Holkar's Bridge near Kirkee during a flood. 28 July 1870'

Bungalow of William Wordsworth, Principal of the English College,

Poona. 4 January 1868

Landscape showing the church, Poona. 1849 or 1850

Pen-and-ink and wash drawing of Major Augustus Grafton's house at

Pune (Poona) in Maharashtra- 1832

Backyard Cricket(1943, Poona)

photo from Jerry Gosnell

Annie Kathleen Maxwell (Kilroy) Gosnell

Mula River from the Fitzgerald Bridge(Now Bund Garden Bridge) towards the Jamsetji Bund, with

the Bund Gardens on the left, photo dating in 1870

Construction of the Bundgarden Bridge 1851

The Bund in the Making- 1851

Jejeebhoy [Jamsetjee] Bund, 1860

Bund, Poona, 1898

Bund Gardens from the Fitzgerald Bridge- 1869

In 1870

Bund Gardens- 1870

Bund Gardens- 1870

Lakes in Pune- 1857

Talyatala Ganpati-1857

Mutha River 1857

Photograph of Indian Army personnel, horses and cart,

Poona, India, during the plague [1897]

Durham Light Infantry Officer, on a horse, on plague duty outside marked houses in Poona, India, 10 April 1897

Plague Duty -1897

A disinfecting station during the plague, Poona, India, 1897

Durham Light Infantry Officer, on a horse, on plague duty outside marked houses

in Poona, India, 10 April 1897

Photograph of burial notices painted on the exterior wall of a building in Poona, India, at the time of the plague,., [1897]

People going to detachment camp during Plague epidemic 1897

Photograph of members of the Soldiers’ Christian Association, including a woman, taken at Poona,

India, 1887

The cycling corps of the 2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, riding

bicycles along a track, taken at Poona, India, February 1897

Huntsmen and hounds 1897, Poona, India, 1897

Picnic party,, at Sangavi, near Poona, India, 1898

Photograph of a picnic group, taken at the top of Sinhagad, near Poona, India, 1898

Advertisement card for

F.B. Stewart, photo artist,

Poona, India, [ c.1898]

People assembled for a Bicycle Gymkhana, outside the Council Hall, Poona, India, [ c.1897]

The bicycle gymkhana,

on the Gymkhana Ground,

Poona, India, [ c.1897]

People seated at tea tables in the shade of trees near Kosherville Boathouse in Poona (Pune),

India. In 1906

Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Earl of Halifax (1881 - 1959), British Conservative statesman and Viceroy of India

(1926 - 1931) in an official group photograph taken at Government House, Poona in connection with the Vice Regal visit. Viceroy is in the centre of the front row, sitting to

the left of the Governor Aug. 1926

July 1880: Members of the Poona and Kirkee Hounds taken with the Governor at Kirkee

Prince Albert Victor- in Poona - 1889Governor’s House with Officers & Family

Officers rest house, Poona, India, c 1930

Birthplace of the Popular GameBadminton was in Pune in late 19 Century

the game had been played for centuries by children in the Far East, and were adapted by British Army officers stationed in Pune (or Poona), India in the 1860s.  They added a net and the game became a competitive sport called “Poona", with documented rules in 1867.

The Temple at Wanowrie.

Landscape showing the church, Poona. 1849 or 1850

St.Paul’s Church

The St. Mary's Church in Pune, 1930

The St. Mary's Church in Pune, 1930

St Mary's Church Poona

St Mary's Church Inset: 1950 -Father Wain

St Mary's Church, Pune (Poona), c. 1946

Racecourse

October 1899: Racegoers crowded in to the pavilion of Pune racecourse,

A Horserace going on – Poona Racecource - 1900

1930-32. Scenes from Poona races.

Scenes from Pune Race Course 1932

Poona Racecourse

'The Bookies Shade, Poona Race Course', India [early 20th c.]

Wanowrie Military Barracks,

Camps of Seventh Day Adventists Missionaries in 1930

Boating in Sangam of Mula-Mutha 1880

Khadki Cantonment-1880

A smart looking fellow on a camel on Elphinstone Road.

Seventh Day Adventists

7th Battalion Barracks at Poona, India (June/July 1942)

 (photo courtesy of CQMS Fred Weedman and his daughter Jill

Burton)

Officers’ Mess 1898

British Attached Section, PoonaPune Camp

British Attached Section, Poona, entrance 1945-47

British Attached Section, PoonaPune Camp

British Attached Section, Poona 1945-47

The Barracks (B), Kirkee 1844

Officers 1st Bn The Queen’s Royal Regiment, Poona 1877

British Army Officers with Locals- 1919

1906 Motor Car India Poona Race

1906 Motor Car India Poona Race

The National War Memorial

Memorial cross bearing the inscription 'in memory of the officers & their FamilyAt Ghorpadi -1900

Laugharne War MemorialThe Great War, 1914-1918

Regimental Band, Poona, India (1942)

Ghorpuri Barracks in Poona, India, in 1887, the 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry

Group photograph of the hockey team of the 2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, Poona, India, n.d. [early 20th c.]

Erandavana Church- Now on Karve Road -1913

The Poona Horse Battalion Did a marvelous Job for British Army in the Battle of Kandahar- Afghanistan - 1880

A B-24 Liberator of No.6 Squadrons, the 'Dragons' at Pune in the 1950s . Photo Courtesy: Late AVM NK Nair's collection

A view from Boat Club

Innoculation for Plague 1910

In 1910

Col. & Mrs. Spratt 1891

Bombay's governor Sir Roger Lumley is introduced to newly-inducted Congress cabinet members in Pune during 1937.

Poona 1917 from Right Flank Lines

Poona 1917 -Right Flank Lines

Weekend Family Picnic- British Army Officers 1900

God Save the King- Day 1917

Victoria- (Horsecart) Used by Britishers in Poona- 1921

Collection of Food Supply to British Army

Collection & Transport of food supply to army by Bullock Train

This painting depicts two shops, the one on the left selling paan, the one on the right owned by a Muslim dealer in piece goods

(textiles). They are probably located in the Sadr bazaar, Poona- 1850

Children swinging Sudder bazaar. Poona- 1850

Grain Shop Poona- 1850

A bangle-seller in his shop, Pune

in 1850

The Dhangar" showing a man with wheelbarrow, sepia-tone postcard

Exterior of bungalow and household staff (distant) on grounds of military station during the Raj 1878

The Barracks at Khadki- 1890

October 1926: Group of members of the Indian Civil Service of the Bombay Presidency; taken at Poona during annual gathering

A warm send-off to 'satyagrahis', led by Vaidya Khadiwale, as they proceed to Hyderabad state, in Bombay on November

11, 1938.

A glider prepared by Young Students in Pune --1933

A doctor examines the ear of a trainee mechanic in the Indian Air Force at the Poona engineering college during the second world war.

Aryabhushan Press Poona City, India

blindstamp, 31mm dia., ca.1933

PANSHET

FLOODS

Old Lakadi Pool

Khadakwasala Dam Before it broke down in 1961

Panshet Flood- 1961

|The Holkar Bridge is inundated by flood waters.

Gushing flood waters at Bund Garden, Poona.

Panshet Flood- 1961

A view of the damaged portion of the Omkareshwar temple in Shanivar Peth

Indian army personnel clearing the debris after the floods receded in Poona.

Uprooted trees and rubble are a testimony of the devastation caused by the floods near Nava Pool ( Shivaji Bridge- near PMC)

Worst-flood-hit areas around Lakdi bridge

Devastation caused by floods in Shivaji Nagar area of Pune, Maharashtra, on July 14, 1961

The Times of India captures in its lens people escaping the fury of floods in Pune, Maharashtra, on July 14, 1961.

Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru visits the flood ravaged areas of Shaniwarpeth in Poona in an open jeep and inspects the relief and rehabilitation measures taken by the authorities

Flood In1900

MANDAI

RAY MARKET

Mandai- Ray Market

in 1929

Mandai in early 70s

Mandai –Ray Market-1920

Postcard photograph of City Market, Poona, India, n.d., [early 20th c

Mahatma Phule Mandai, Then & Now

Reay Market- A Fruit Stall

Reay Market-

OLD BUILDINGS

A wada from the Peshwa period that still stands testimony to the glorious past of the Maratha

reign.

The Kanayalal building - a typical example of architecturally beautiful buildings of Pune.

The Kanayalal building - a typical example of architecturally beautiful buildings of Pune.

The office of the Royal Western India Turf Club Limited (RWITC Ltd) in Pune, Maharashtra, which is a premier racing Club in India is seen through the lens of the Times of India cameraman on January 1, 1935

Picture in 1932

Photograph of prison buildings, captioned: C.M. Prison, Poona, India, n.d. [ c.1897]

The Mango Tree in the prison yard

Succath Shelomo Synagogue of Poona

AFMC 1969

CWPRS- 1928

Bharat Itihas Sanshodhak Mandal

Then Now

The Council Hall Poona

POONA CLUB- photo in 1905

CENTRAL BUILDING- 1905

St. Crispin's Church, built in the early 1900s

Poona Lodge, The Theosophical Society, F.C. road

KESARIWADA Photo-1955

The St. Mary's Church in Pune, Maharashtra, which is known for its Gothic architectural style, is the oldest Protestant church in India. Bishop Reginald Heber founded this church on July 3, 1825 for the British officers, soldiers and their families. Photograph Date: : 01/01/1930

BHANDARKAR INST. 1940

Silver Jubilee Celebration BORI4&5 January 1943

Panch-houd Mission & Tower

Panch-houd Mission & Tower- in 1900

Council Hall- 1876

Council Hall 1900

Council Hall then- Now a posh Area in Camp

This is Pune’s Zero Stone. It sits outside the GPO

Zero Stone Watchman

View of Prabhat Studio from Hanuman Tekdi in

year of 1934

Prabhat Studio

Adelphi Cinema, Poona (Pune), 1945/1947

West End Cinema, Poona (Pune), 1945/1947

Aryan Cinema- 1940

Cathay Cinema, Poona (Pune), 1945/1947

Alka Cinema in 1949

Tilak Smarak Mandir 1 August 1925

Balgandharva Rangmandir

Built in 1885, by Lt.Gen John Ross to a design by Gen Cecil D'Urban LaTouche and W.M Ducat it cost

Rs 1,23,800.

Shivaji Market

Sir J. J. Agiary, Poona, circa 1935. The Zoroastrian Priest

standing at the Agiary entrance

Pune Railway Station- 1900

In the year 1843, a well known Parsi inhabitant of Poona contributed his personal wealth to construct, what is the present Agiary,

Deccan Gymkhana

Old Wada about to collapse

Dilapidated old wada

Bhagwati Mansion, M G Road, an example of 19th Century building unnoticed even though it stands right above the much frequented Kohinoor Hotel

Not Very Old- But Pune had a Stock Exchange

Little old bakery in an old wada. Loved the color scheme. 

East Street- J. Willyams Car Showroom1970

A very old house in Pune, India - near Shaniwar Wada

Pune Gully

one of the oldest library in running condition in Pune....this library is @

east street,pune 

the National Film Archives Building in Pune

CENTRAL BUILDINGS 1900

Main Street, Poona Vintage Photographic

The majestic Narsimha Bhavan at Kasba Peth

Courtyard of Mujumdar Wada. The well seen on the left still provides clean

drinking water from Katraj, 18 kms away.

Meteorological Office, Pune ( Simla Office)photo in 1928

Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum

Cosmos Bank- 1906

Viceroy Lord Wavel laying the foundation stone of Maharashtra Cricket Association’s Stadium

Now: Nehru Stadium- January 1941

BALBHARATI BUILDING

AGAKHAN

PALACE

Agakhan Palace & panoramic view of Pune- Dec. 1942

Agakhan Palace

Agakhan Palace 1885

Yervada Palace (also known as The Aga Khan Palace) was built by Mowlana Sultan Mohammed Shah at a cost of nearly half a million rupees to provide a means of livelihood to the famine stricken people.

Prince Agha Khan palace in Pune, handed over by His Highness to Gandhi Smarak Nidhi on February 22, 1969. Same day Photo

Agakhan Palace Jan.1943

SASSOON

HOSPITAL

The Sassoon General Hospital Photograph Date: : 01/01/1954

Sassoon

Hospital

Sassoon Hospital 1876

The Sassoon Hospital, early 20th century

On the night of January 12,1924, amidst a violent thunderstorm, state prisoner Gandhiji was operated upon in Sassoon Hospital, Poona, by Colonel Maddock for acute appendicitis.

ARIAL VIEW, B. J. MEDICAL COLLEGE, PUNE

GREAT

PEOPLE

Typical Puneri BrahmanIn 1903

A Watermellon Seller woman In 1903

A Brahmin LadyIn 1903

WasudevIn 1903

A PostmanIn 1903

Servants at home of a British Officer

Mayor of the Poona municipal corporation, Rohidas Kirad (left) garlanding President of India, Dr Rajendra Prasad, after the portrait of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was unveiled by the President in Poona, Maharashtra on June 26, 1961.

Lokmanya Bal Ganghadar Tilak's close associate B G Khaparde (right) unveils a bust of the late leader and freedom fighter at Sardar Griha in Bombay during 1956. Also present is Bombay governor H K Mahtab (2nd right).

The Original Palkhi of the Ganapati

Mahatma Phule Wada- 1960

Mahatma Phule Wada

The Well, Mahatma Jyotirao Phule allowed the untouchables to take water from the well (In the premises of his house).

Mahatma Phule Wada

Mahatma Jotirao Phule in his Youth 

British royalty, acknowledging the regal salute on their arrival at Pune station in Maharashtra on November 25, 1923.

A 1900 file photo of Indian nationalist, social reformer and freedom fighter Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak in study

An early 20th century file photo of India's freedom fighters, Dada Saheb Karandhikar (standing, left) and N C Kelkar; (sitting) Bipin Chandra Pal (left), Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak (centre) and Dada Saheb Khaparde

GOKHLE Smarak on Hanuman TekdiVows of the Servants of India Society  

Chaphekar wada at Chinchwad

Mahatma Gandhi fasts in protest against British rule after his release

from prison in Poona, India.

Marriage of Devadas Gandhi, son of Mahatma Gandhi, took place at Poona, India. July 1933

Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru addresses the Members of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, at Poona on October 07, 1949.

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares open the TILAK SMARAK MANDIR in Pune on December 11, 1976, releasing 'Smarak-Grantha' -- the seven-volume published works on Lokmanya Tilak. Next is Y B Chavan,

Statue of Veer SavarkarWithB.R.Khedkar- Artist

President of India, Dr Rajendra Prasad being greeted by members of the Poona municipal corporation on his arrival at the corporation building, Poona in Maharashtra on June 26, 1961.

Maharashtra chief minister Y B Chavan (right) unveils a life-size oil portrait of veteran freedom fighter Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak on the latter's death anniverssary, at a cell in Yervada central prison, Pune, where the illustrious leader was imprisoned by the British 63 years ago. Also present are MLA and Lokmanya Tilak's grandson Jayantrao Tilak (centre) and Inspector-General of Prisons, Maharashtra, M B Salvi in Bombay on August 01, 1961

So impressed were Sir Cowasji Jehangir and his wife Lady Hirabai, with the dedication and zeal of this man that they put their palatial mansion on Sassoon Road at his disposal and persuaded him to start a hospital. The mansion was called Ready money Villa, but in 1944 when Cowasji and Hirabai’s son Jehangir died in an accident, the hospital was renamed Jehangir Nursing Home in his memory. (Today it is called Jehangir Hospital and Medical Center.) & Now Apollo Jehangir

Eduljee Hormusji Coyaji, The Good Doctor of PoonaFounder of Jehangir Hospital

The first Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav- off course in Pune and India

Russian President, Nikita Khrushchev (C) visiting the Poona Agricultural Research Station

Dr. babasaheb Ambedkar with Cricket team to Felicitate P.Balu at Poona Gymkhana- 1890

V.K.Krishnamenon, D.W. Potdar in a function atRashtrabhasha Sabha, 4 May 1959

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Kriplani and Asaf Ali, on their way to attend the working committee meeting at Poona on 1945. Pd. 16/9/1945.

1944 Feb 22 Kasturba Gandhi Dies at Age 74

BHARATRATNAMaharshi D.K.KarveBeing felicitated by the President of India

Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (left) receiving the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature from the Chancellor of Poona University, Sri Prakasa at a special convocation held in Poona, Maharashtra on May 14, 1961.

Mahatma Gandhi along with prominent Congressmen pays homage to his wife Kasturba Gandhi, at her memorial at Aga Khan Palace in Pune on February 22, 1945

Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan aka 'Frontier Gandhi' and Prime Minister Indira Gandhi plant saplings at Shantivan in Pune on November 14, 1969

A group photo of people accused in Gandhi's murder case. Standing: Shankar Kistaiya, Gopal Godse, Madanlal Pahwa, Digambar Badge (Approver). Sitting: Narayan Apte, Vinayak D. Savarkar, Nathuram Godse, Vishnu Karkare

Awtar Meher babaIn Pune 1956

OLD CITY

Poona City Sweets Shop1900

GOLDSMITH- 1911

A Kumbhar making Pottery 1911

"Brahmin students," from the Illustrated London News, 1858

Café Yezdaan

Alhaj Hakeem Raazi Adeebi Ashrafi runs a dawakhana at Sachapir Street in Poona

Café Good Luck- 1930

Café Good Luck-

Café Sunrise- 1950

Ganeshkhind Road- where are the trees now? Vanished to build E-Squares??

Water-colour painting of a street scene in Poona (Pune) by John Frederick Lester (1825-1915) dated 13 September 1871.

Water-colour painting of the river at Pune with the hill of Parvati in the

background by John Johnson ,dated to between circa 1795 and 1801.

Omkareshwar Mandir dating to between circa 1795 and

1801

View of Poona [Pune], with river in the foreground. October 1804

Sadashiv Peth Houd 1920

Sadashiv Houd c.1900

Prisoners making Cane Chairs, Yarrowda Jail -1910

An exterior view of Yeravda Prison at Poona , January 1931

YERAVDA JAIL1960

YERAVDA JAIL1960

A photograph of a view Omkareshwar Temple in Poona

about 1855

A photograph of a view of the River Mula at Kirkee, towards the ghats near Poona about 1855. The British Residency was located at the confluence or sangam of the Mula and

Mutha rivers.

Mutha River- 1930- taken from Lloyd’s Bridge- ‘Shivaji PoolShowing Shaniwar Peth side

Siddheshwar Mandir, Nene Ghat, Apte Ghat.River full of water

Scene along the Mula-Mutha River c.1947

Scene of Mula River Pune), c.1947

Mula River

A View of Bund At Bund Gardens1947

Sangam

1900

A photograph of the Gopura of a temple at Khadki in 1855

Photograph of a potter at work at Pune (Poona) in Maharashtra, taken by an

unknown photographer in c. 1873, from the Archaeological Survey of India

Collections.

A photograph of a view across the ghats and temples near Poona about 1855.

A typical road in camp back then 1900

View of Pune from the bank of the river opposite the Resident's

Gardens, showing the hill and temple of Parvati- 1870

BUNDGARDEN BRIDGE- Newly Constructed –then

Jeejeebhoy Bund of Pune 1900

Jeejeebhoy Bund of Pune- Overflowing- 1904

Chatusshrungi Temple

Maruti Mandir- Panchmukhi MarutiIn 1900

Bullock Cart 1910

Old Bullock cart going to Jatra

Late Baburao Sanas(First mayor of Pune)Going for Chatushringi Yatra.

Bullock teams in Poona, 1945

Early Morning Buzz on Pune road in 1930

1900

1910

Fetching water from Wells & carrying it on Head-1910

In 1910

In 1910

Bhavani Peth

A new Three Storey HouseIn 1913

East Street 1950

Street scene, Pune? (Poona), c. 1946

BUND GARDEN

MAIN STREET in 40s

Main Street Pune- 1920

A Typical Bazaar in Pune

The City of Bicycle it was

Wolseley Motor in Empress Gardens Poona, Salmons Coupe Bovril

Colman'S 1916

Snake charmer playing a pungi

in front of snakes, India 1945

GARUDI & SNAKE CHARMERD, in the Pune streets early 20th century

Snake charmer in action, and monkey man in Poona, 1945

The Yerandawana Village Wrestlers opposite their Gymnasium

An aerial view of Pune, Maharashtra is seen through the lens of the Times of India cameraman on January 1, 1932.

The Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune, was founded on July 6,

1917

The Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute,

WESTEND CINEMA 1950

WESTEND CINEMA 1950

Baburao Sanas sports ground at Swargate

Mesars Sawkar Narayanrao Dhadge & company vegetable commission agents office at Mandai,

Pune & staff. 1950

Women working in a Printing Press- 1920

Bhawani Peth (Street) Poona 1910.

Army personnel partake in a training programme, at Pune on September 30, 1963

JRD Tata inaugurates the Tata Management Training Centre and dedicated to the purposes of management

development for the Tata Group of Companies at Poona January 6, 1966.

Budhwar Peth, a native quarter in Pune.

Budhwar Peth- 1920

A potter at work in Kumbharwada. A fine example of kinship and

community areas.

North Main Road- Near Osho Ashram- 1978

Near Devi Heights 1989

Laxmi Road 1980

Thorala & Dhakla Shaikh Salla PrcessionMohrram- Poona 1900

POSTMAN1940

BEGGAR (Female) at Poona-1940

POLICEMAN1940

WAITER-1940

A group of homeless squatters by their makeshift tents near Shivaji bridge at Poona. India. 1948

EMPRESS GARDEN - PUNE

German bakery 

Pune is the second largest city in the state of Maharashtra and the eighth largest city in the Indian sub-continent. The city is popularly referred to as the “Oxford of East” as it is a very famous educational centre in India. In ancient times Pune was an agricultural town ruled by Peshwas and Marathas. Today Pune is the blooming educational centre, IT hub and home to well-established Manufacturing, Glass, Sugar and Metal Forging industries since 1950-60s. Another thing for which Pune is famous for is the OSHO Ashram. OSHO earlier known as Bhagvan Rajneesh is the spiritual teacher who lived in Pune in 1970s and 1980s. The OSHO International Meditation resort is one of the largest and very popular tourist attractions in Pune. Each year thousand of tourists come here to meditate. The ashram is located in the Koregaon Park area in Pune.Apart from being the manufacturing and forging hub Pune is visitor’s paradise also. There are various ancient monuments which have historical importance, temples, ancient buildings, beautiful hill stations etc. It is a modern city also; the night life in Pune is simply amazing and is something you should experience when in Pune. The huge shopping malls and multiplexes are the favorite hangout places for young as well as old Puneites.

Mahatma Phule Museum- Estd. 1890

Phulrani, Peshwe Park

Phulrani, Peshwe Park

Pashan Hills quarry, southwest of Poona,

source of green apophyllite. 1974

Apopyllite Poona

PUNEUNIVERSIT

Y

Government House- (Rajbhavan) 1870

Government House, Guneshkhind, Poona – 1870 From The Illustrated London News

Dated 1870

Pune University

Governor’s House- later converted to the University of Poona

Sassoon General Hospital Dt. 1 January 1954

The romantic arches of Poona University! The romantic arches of Poona University! The romantic arches of Poona University!

The romantic arches of Poona University-1950

SCHOOLS&

COLLEGES&

INSTITUTES

Vedic School- 1859 -from Illustrated London News

Boat Club of COEP in 1959

COEP 1950

NEW English School Pune- 1953

Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute

Established October 6, 1821, Deccan College is one of the oldest institutions of modern learning in India. It was originally run by the Bombay Government as a center for undergraduate and postgraduate studies, offering western education in accordance with the desire of its founder Mountstuart Elphinstone.

Deccan College, Poona, India, [early 20th c.]

Group portrait of pupils and teachers of the Convent School-

1873

Fergusson College

Fergusson College

Grand Old Fergusson College 125 yrs ago

A Postal Stamp of FC

S.P. College – 1930Watch No Tilak Road- The entrance is also different

Nowrosjee Wadia College, 19322

Construction work of Nowrosjee Wadia College -1930

Aerial View of Pune with Wadia Colleges 1935

BMCC in 1943.

College of Engineering

SNDT College

The Agricultural College at Pune, Maharashtra,

on January 1, 1935

The College of Agriculture, Pune

The Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru is seen laying the foundation stone of the National Defence Academy - India's memorial to the fallen heroes of the last war - at Khadakvasla, near Poona, on October 6,1949. Behind him is seen Sardar Baldev Singh, Minister of Defence, Government of India.

A Monument in the Making”: Pt Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, laying the foundation stone at Khadakwasla.

An imposing view of the main administrative building of National Defense Academy at Khadakvasla in Pune. Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru laid the foundation stone of the building on October 6, 1949

N.D.A. Khadakwasla

College of Military Engineering Estd. 1951

St. Vincent’s High School 1867

St. Vincent’s High School Hostel

Bishops School- 1950

St. Meera of Vaswani Mission 1949Previous Jejebhoy Castle

St. Meera of Vaswani Mission

Gokhale Institute

Gokhale Institute

Fergusson College students, Pune - 1940s.

Fashions in Pune Young Girls 1945

B.J.Medical College

Armed Forces Medical College, Pune

Armed Forces Medical College, Pune

NCL Pune Foundation Stone6 April 1947

NCL Inauguration- Prime Minister Pt. Nehru3 Jan 1950

Attendance of Nobel LaureatesFor Inauguration

NCL Building 1950

Pt. Nehru & Smt. Indira Gandhi at NCL President RajendraprasadAt NCL

Navin Marathi Shala, Pune, Estd. 1899

OLDPLACES

Katraj Ghaat 1950

Jeejebhoy CastleNow Sadhu Waswani Chowk- before the erection of Statue

National Institute of Virology Estd. 1952

Gliding Club- Hadapsar

A superbly restored Dennis fire engine of the Poona Fire Brigade, still retaining its Rolls Royce engine and working equipment

The First TATA Mercedes Truck delivered in 1954 in Pune

1969-Employees cheer as the first Tata branded truck rolls out, ending the collaboration with Daimler Benz, Germany

Views of Laxmi Road, 1977

Bund Garden View- 1817

Bund Gardens

Bund garden Pune

Bundgarden in 1965

Bund garden in 1965

Boating in Bund garden- 1965

Pune airport

A botched 3 engine practice crash landing at Poona in the fifties

Deccan Gymkhana Club Pavilion in 50s

Jaideep Mukerjea (left) and Premjeet Lall of India in action against the Japanese pair (only Junzo Kawamori is seen in right foreground) in the Davis Cup East zone final which India won at Deccan Gymkhana in Poona, May 12, 1969.

Tilak Tank in 70s

Poona Young Cricketer’s Hindu Gymkhana (PYC)

in 1908

Flower and Vegetable show at Victoria Gardens,( EMPRESS Garden) Pune, on February 20, 1954.

Sothern Command 1949

Sothern Command 1956- Gymnastics

President of India Dr.S.RadhakrishnanAt Sothern Command-1962

President of India Dr.S.RadhakrishnanAt Sothern Command-1966

Old Timers at Café Yezdaan

MUSIC, ARTS &

PUNE

Poster for Drama advt dated 14 09 1872

१९१०चा मनोरंजनचा दि8वाळी अंक

'मनोरंजन'चा १८९७ सालचा एक अंक

Bal Gandhrva ‘Mauj’ Diwali Ank 1924

Balgandharva Singing in Private Mehfil

SAWAI GANDHARVA

Pt. Bhimsen Joshi

Vishnu Digambar Paluskar(1872-1931)

Padmabhushan 'Mahamahopadhyaya' Datto Vaman Potdar

Begum Akhtar inSawai Gandhrva 1968

SHRADDHA in 1900

Sawai Gandharva Mahotsav

Pt. Bhimsen

Ustad Zakir Hussain

Pt. Kumar Gandharva in Pune Programme

Ustad Abdul Karim Khan in Aakashwani Concert

Marathi Weekly Dnyanpraksh 1885

Bhaskarbuwa Bakhale in a mehfil; at the extreme right is 'Lokmanya' Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Dada Kondkwe Nilu Phule Sharad Talwalkar Raja Gosavi

Dr.Kashinath Ghanekar

RAILWAY,DECCAN QUEENBHOR(KHANDA

LA) GHAT

Reversing Station, Poona [Bhor/ Khandala] Ghaut, 1881

The Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company developed the scheme in the 1840s and the Bhor Ghat pass was openedn 1861 as the main route over the Western Ghats linking the sea coast with the Deccan.

Ravines of Khandala- The Bhore Ghat created with such challenges in 1883

Vice regal train of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway,1927 leaving Bombay carrying the Viceroy to Poona.

An old advertisement trying to attract passengers for the Bombay-Poona train

Deccan Queen in 1930

The Bombay to Poona Mail of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway. 1920

Deccan Queen in 1980

An advertisement by the GIP Railway announcing the inauguration of the Deccan Queen 1930

The double deck car carried by the Deccan Queen in the

1980s

Sangam Railway Bridge

INDIA - DECEMBER 18: Passenger train pulled by an electric locomotive number 4004. This train, on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, took passengers between Poona (Pune) and Bombay (Mumbai), a distance of 118 miles. The line was electrified in 1929 to provide a more efficient service.

Bhor Ghat, India, c 1930

A Tunnel of Khandala Ghat under Construction

The Road and the Tunnel near Rajmachi under construction

A Tunnel of Khandala Ghat under Construction

Bhor Ghat, India, c 1930

Railway Bridge on Bhore Ghaut,“ 1855 the construction of the Bhor Ghat incline, conceived by

George Clark, Chief Engineer of Bombay in the East India Company

Dapoorie Viaduct The bridge completed in

1854

The first local train between Lonavla and Poona is pictured here Poona, circa 1929

New Poona station in the 1930s

Poona station - from an old postcard- 1910

Poona station - from an old postcard- 1910

The StreetOppositePune Railway Station.Showing DaveHindu HotelDeccan QueenRestaurant

Pune Railway Station

Pune Railway Station 1940

VIP Reception at Railway Station

Vendor selling sweets and cakes at Poona Station, India, c 1930.

RAILWAY PASSING THROUGH PUNE

PUNE SURROUNDIN

GS

Fort Purandhar, near Pune ;early 20th century

Ancient excavations at Karle- 1809

Saswad- 1913

A mosque near Saswad- 1900

1889 Wazirgur Purandhar Indian Hill Poona Bombay Art Full Page From The Illustrated London News Dated 1889

1889 -Kille Purandhar

Purundhar Fort - 1945 

View from Purandar 1930

Richly-carved, perforated stone window, Narsapur

View in the Bhor Ghaut, & Duke’s Nose drawn on the spot in 1803

Approach to the Bhor Ghat 1826

View from the top of the Bore Ghaut, drawn in 1803

Khandala- 1860

Sardar Purandare wada at Sonori, Saswad

Sardar Purandare wada at Sonori, Saswad

Daulat Mangal Fort- Saswad

Jadhav Gadhi, situated off Saswad road at Jadhavwadi near Pune, is a 400 year old small fort built by Dhanaji Jadhav, Senapati of the Maratha empire.

Jadhav Gadhi

Courtyard of rajwada palatial house in Peshwa dynasty converted to local authority offices ; Bhor ; Pune ;

Durgah at Khed Shivapur

Pilaji Jadhavrao Samadhi at Saswad

Jadhavrao Chhatri at Wagholi

Village Near Poona- 1945

The starting point of the Expressway at Dehu Road ( Pune Section).

Expressway from Dehu Road to Somatne under construction

Under Construction- Express HighwayS curve on the expressway as we head straight

towards Dehu Road ... and approach Pune.

OLD POSTCARDS WITH OLD PUNE VIEW

A Greeting CardFrom Pune to Ireland

In 1944

Holkar Bridge 1912During Floods

BundgardenDhobis

Interior of St. Vincent's R.C. Church, Stained Glass Window, Cross

Birds Eye viewOf Poona

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