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  • The temples are built in the Peshwa style and we saw some beautiful wooden pillars here.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Anjali 2007

  • Peshwa general Haripant Phadake lost his General's position and did 21 Pradakshina around the temple.

    Archive 2009-07-01 photographerno1 2009

  • The temples are built in the Peshwa style and we saw some beautiful wooden pillars here.

    Hari Hareshwar, Paradise Calling Anjali 2007

  • The facade is made to look like a Wada belonging to the Peshwa and is painted silver.

    Diva Maharashtracha Abodh 2007

  • After a short wait and a glass of complementary Kokum Sharbat, we were shown inside to the tunes of the traditional Peshwa style announcing trumpet.

    Eating out - Diva Maharashtracha 2007

  • The facade is made to look like a Wada belonging to the Peshwa and is painted silver.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Abodh 2007

  • The Maratha leaders, angered by the Treaty of Bassein (1802), which made the Peshwa a subsidiary ally, opened hostilities.

    D. South and Southeast Asia, 1753-1914 2001

  • The Peshwa died in 1851, leaving the Nana an enormous fortune; but he was not content.

    Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

  • His cause of dissatisfaction was the discontinuance to him of a pension which, at the close of the Mahratta war in 1818, was granted to the Peshwa, on the clear understanding that it was to cease at his death.

    Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

  • While Russia was laboriously crossing a barren desert, the North-West Provinces, the Carnatic, the territories of the Peshwa, Sind, and the Punjab, successively came under our rule, and by 1850 we had extended our dominions to the foot of the mountains beyond the Indus.

    Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

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