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5 unusual facts about Aundh State


Atpadi

Later in the 19th century it became part of the princely state of Aundh as well as a palace city, hence it was called Atpadi Mahal.

Bangarwadi

It is a story of a young schoolteacher and his experiences in one small village of shepherds, in the princely state of Aundh, during the 1940s.

Kinhai

Kinhai was a village of the former princely state of Aundh and was included in Koregaon taluka after the merger of the princely states.

Madhav Satwalekar

Madhav Satwalekar spent most of his childhood in the Princely State of Aundh where his father was the resident scholar, artist and advisor in the court of the then Maharaja.

Yamai

The temple complex also houses the Shri Bhavani Museum established from the private collection of the Maharajas of Aundh The museum holds paintings by noted 19th and 20th century artists such as M. V. Dhurandhar, Baburao Painter, Madhav Satwalekar and Raja Ravi Varma as well as the famous "Mother and Child" stone structure by  British artist, Henry Moore.


Open prison

The 1957 Hindi film, Do Aankhen Barah Haath by V.Shantaram was inspired by the story of an 'open-prison' experiment swatantrapur in the princely state of Aundh near Satara, Maharashtra.


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