Poona

Poona
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Presidency: Bombay
Coordinates:	18.520469°N, 73.85662°E
Altitude:	560 m (1,837 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name:	Pune
State/Province:	Maharashtra
Country:	India
Transport links
Great Indian Peninsula Railway Southern Mahratta Railway

Poona is a city about 100km south-east of Bombay (now Mumbai), which was formerly a garrison town of the British Army. In recent times it has been famous for being the birthplace of the British comedian Spike Milligan, and the ashram of the Orange People (followers of Sri Rajneesh).

Poona was an important junction where the metre gauge Southern Mahratta Railway met the broad gauge of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway.

History

Battle of Poona 1817

Spelling Variants

Modern name: Pune
Variants: Poona

External links

Historical Books Online

Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency Archive.org

• Volume 18, Part 1, Poona 1885
• Volume 18, Part 2, Poona 1885
• Volume 18, Part 3, Poona 1885

Other

• "Poona" LoveToKnow 1911
• "Pune" Wikipedia
• Deccan Queen: A Spatial Analysis of Poona in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries by Wayne Thomas Mullen. Sydney University Digital Theses 26 March 2006. A thesis which is “structured around the analysis of a model that describes the Cantonment, the Civil Lines, the Sadr Bazar and part of the Native City of the Western Indian settlement of Poona in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries”