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== History ==
Poona grew under the Moguls from 1636 as a trade route. Its importance escalated after 1750 when it became the capital of the Marathá Empire.
The Battle of Poona October 1802 lead to the Second Anglo-Maratha War between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire.
After the Peshwas were defeated at the Battle of Khadki (then Kirkee) between the British and the Marathas on 5 November 1817 near Pune (in the Third Anglo-Maratha War) the city was seized. It was placed under the administration of the Bombay Presidency, and the British built a large military cantonment to the east of the city (still used by the Indian Army). The Pune Municipality was established in 1858. Pune was at one time the "monsoon capital" of the Bombay Presidency.
*St.Patrick's Church est 1850
*Church of the Immaculate Conception, est 1854
*St.Xavier's Church est 1864
*The St.Andrew's Church est 1864, was built to cater to the British Army personnel and their families belonging to the Church of Scotland
*All Saints Church est 1869 (Birth, Death, Marriage and Baptism registers are all available since 1869)
*Methodist Marathi Church est 1872.
*The Church Of The Holy Name est 1885
*St Matthew's Tamil Curch est1893
*Ghorpuri Garrison Church, est 1890, now known as St.John's Telugu Church
*[http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/495 ''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”
*[http://www.punediary.com/html/churches.html]"churches"
*{http://www.virtualpune.com/html/channel/status/christ/christ.shtml]
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[[Category:Cities, towns and villages in Bombay Presidency]]
