Poonah

_party_ so described was said to consist of four principal persons in the Mahratta state, on whose part _some overtures_ had been made to Mr. William Lewis, the Resident of Bombay at Poonah, _for the assistance of the Company to bring Ragoba to Poonah_.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

In the simpler 'Poonah' times, if you were a Parsi growing up in Bombay, you treated this salubrious little town as your 'monsoon capital' much as the Presidency colonials had done.

The Times of India 2010

'Poonah' was a state of mind before the big C's of commerce and concrete ate into the idyll with carcinogenic greed.

The Times of India 2010

The next day we drove all about Poonah, and went to see the Palace of the Peshwas, in the Indian bazar.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

We saw a great Moslem fête coming out of Poonah at night.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

The following day at evening we left Poonah for Hyderabad.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

We left Bombay by the 1.15 express train, reaching Poonah in seven hours.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

The distance from Poonah to Máhábáleshwar was seventy-five miles by road; so as we were going on the same evening we ordered a trap, and after dinner we set forth.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

When we were walking alone through its dark shade, we were startled by a shocking smell like that of a dissecting-room; and on looking up saw dead bodies in mats suspended from the branches of the trees, a mode of burial somewhat similar to that which we subsequently saw practised by the Parsees in their “towers of silence” at Poonah, near Bombay.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

In 1802, when the Scindiah made war upon the Mahratta sovereign of Poonah, and expelled him from his territories,

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr