Old Pune water canal system

#Pune history

Ref : A Study of the Katraj canal by Pallavi Gokhale and S.Deo ; Pune Queen of Deccan by Jaymala & Didee

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Details of aquaduct Image
The Peshwa era Katraj canal supplied as much water as the British era Khadakwasla canal.
Khadakwasla dam got washed away by the Panshet dam collapse in 1961. The city reverted to save whatever it could from the Katraj Aquaduct. Image

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24 Mar
The root of Fergusson College is in the New English School established in 1880 by Lokmanya Tilak , Chiplunkar and Namjoshi.
This morphed into the Deccan Education Society in 1884 with support from others such as Agarkar and Gokhale.

Rajashri Shahu of Kolhapur, at the time 10 years old, was named President. It was a honorary designation.

Kolhapur itself was under a British Regency at the time. Image
Chhatrapati Shahu was only a child of ten. Leave alone decisions to start a college in Pune, even decisions in Kolhapur were being taken by a British Regent (well obviously)

This doens't take away from his glorious reign but let's not attribute something which never happened.
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22 Mar
Tipu attacked the Maratha town of Nargund , imprisoned the ruler , forcibly converted Hindus and committed atrocities on the female population.

That was the trigger for first Maratha attack on Tipu around 1785.

Great to see you support Tipu.
2000 disciples of Shankaracharya committed suicide to prevent being forcibly converted. Image
From Nana Phadnis and External Affairs of the Maratha Empire - YN Deodhar

Good to see you continue to be proud of Tipu.. Image
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8 Mar
The Battle of Kirkee / Ganeshkhind which settled the fight for #Pune between Bajirao II and the East India Company.
Probable route taken by Mountstuart Elphinstone to escape the Maratha attack on the British Residency at the Sangam and join the soldiers at Kirkee.
With most of the battlefield now a concrete (and in some parts actual) jungle , it's a bit difficult to imagine.

The Marathas under Bapu Gokhale proceeded via the Lakdipul and other routes , through Bhamburda , onto the present Ganeshkhindroad to Ganeshkhind
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7 Mar
I agree Chhatrapati Shivaji was Secular.

Early on, he built masjid, he employed Muslims, he gave grant to dargahs..

And then

He carried a Vishnu Murti for his coronation.

He demoted Qazis to juniormost officials

He ensured no Muslim was part of his Ministry
...
He took 700 Pathana from Bijapur, but...

Just a few years before he died, he asked his brother " Turki fauzet thev liyas Jai milto kaisa ?"
Let's have consistency.

You cannot celebrate the Chhatrapati Shivaji who employed Nur Beg for 5 years, and ignore the Shivaji Maharaj who found no place for a Nur Beg for the next twenty.
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5 Mar
Many moons ago, when the Peshwas still ruled in Pune, it was a practise to reward deserving Brahmins at Parvati hill.

A separate Dakshina fund was set aside for this purpose.

The Dabhades largely funded it. Image
Come 1818, and the British defeated the last Peshwa. The administration passed to them, including the Dakshina fund.

Mountstuart Elphinstone understood the importance of not having knee jerk reactions.

The Dakshina fund continued ... Image
But not in its previous form. It's funds were diverted to the Sanskrit Pathshala

An institution created for the study of scriptures and Sanskrit in 1821.

Later christened Poona College Image
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Alamgir #Aurangzeb

Temple destruction thread.

Starting with Krishnajanmabhoomi , Mathura
Temple destruction in Jodhpur by the hundreds

Ref : Masir e Alamgiri
Same book

Khandela
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