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This India List *The 'posher' schools in Poona in the 1940s were considered to be: Protestant schools were Bishops School for boys and St Marys School for girls. Both these were adjacent to St Mary's Anglican Church; Catholic Schools were the Convent of Jesus and Mary for girls and St VIncents for boys. Both were adjacent to St Xaviers Church.<ref>Taylor. Rosemary.[httphttps://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/INDIAindia.rootsweb.com/2011-03thread/1315599/1299762660 postPublic schools in India] is about the 'posher' schools in PoonaRootsweb India Mailing List'' 10 March 2011. Retrieved 29 September 2019.</ref>
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{{Places of Interest|title=Poona|name=Poona |link=https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=211401480495186034184.0004d2ca7085a745dbddd&msa=0&ll=18.508602,73.898249&spn=0.004115,0.004334}}
'''Poona''' is a city about 100km south-east of [[Bombay]] (now Mumbai), which was a popular social retreat for residents of Bombay as well as formerly the largest garrison town in the Deccan for the [[British Army]]. The British comedian, [http://www.spikemilligan.co.uk/ Spike Milligan], spent his childhood there (his father was in the [[Royal Artillery]]). There was also another cantonment nearby, at [[Kirkee]].
Poona was the headquarters of [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V20_171.gif Poona District] in the Central division of [[Bombay (Presidency)|Bombay Presidency]] during the British period. See [[Bombay Districts]]. It was an important junction where the metre gauge [[Southern Mahratta Railway]] met the broad gauge of the [[Great Indian Peninsula Railway]].
*[[:Category:Poona images|Images of Poona]]
*FIBIS database [https://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=2357&s_id=694 Dhobi Ghat Cemetery, Poona]. Inscriptions have been transcribed from gravestones at the cemetery. Images, (by Mr Rajat Sharma who was commissioned by FIBIS), are also available, which are part of the [https://www.fibis.org/about-2/cemeteries/cemeteries-project/ FIBIS Cemeteries Project], and may be ordered for a modest donation.
*FIBIS database [https://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_detail.php?id=1234160 St Sepulchre Cemetery, Pune] Indexes to miscellaneous donated images, with images
==English Quarters==
*The Free Church Mission for Girls Vernacular School est 1882 in Aditvar Peth
*The Bene-Israel Girls Vernacular School in Rastya Peth est 1882
==Hospitals==
*Kirkee Memorial for 1,800 servicemen who died in India during the First World War, who are buried in civil and cantonment cemeteries in India and Pakistan
*Kirkee War Cemetery contains 1668 Commonwealth burials from the Second World War - many graves have been reinterred at Kirkee from other sites in western and central India
*This India List St Sepulchre's Cemetery. See FIBIS Resources above for images and transcriptions. Thought to contain both Protestant and Roman Catholic graves.<ref>James, Leslie. [httphttps://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/INDIAindia.rootsweb.com/2011-11thread/4206490/1322212906 post] dated 25 November 2011 mentions a visit to St SepulchrePatrick's Protestant Cemetery in RC Cathedral Poona] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 20 June 2007. Retrieved 29 September 2019.</ref> In the 1980s when burial records registers were availableat the gatehouse<ref>James, however this India List Leslie. [httphttps://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/INDIAindia.rootsweb.com/2012-03thread/2240628/1331782216 postAnybody Heading Down The Family Trail This Holiday???] dated 15 March 2012 indicates ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 14 November 2009. Retrieved 29 September 2019.</ref>, but at a visit in 2011 these records are not now at were no longer available, and the East part of the cemetery, which is very overgrown, was a jungle infested with snakes. India List <ref>Bourne, Edmund [httphttps://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/INDIAindia.rootsweb.com/thread/2012-04785919/1334904356 post dated 20 Apr trip to India] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 15 March 2012] by Edmund Bourne . advises the East Gate section of the cemetery is totally in ruinsRetrieved 29 September 2019. More </ref> Some general cemetery images may be seen [[:Category:Poona cemetery images|here]]. (This [http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_christians-accuse-caretaker-of-running-illegal-nursery-in-hadapsar_1545862 report] dated 21 May 2011 details a dispute with the cemetery caretaker).:Transcriptions of monuments from St Sepulchre Cemetery, together with images are now available on the [http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=1465&s_id=694 '''FIBIS database''']
==Newspapers==
European newspapers were the ''Deccan Herald'', and ''Poona Observer''.
== External links ==
*[http://stmaryschurchpune.com/history.html St Mary’s Church Pune] includes [http://stmaryschurchpune.com/Archives.html Archives] with details of graves and memorials. This church is now part of the Church of North India.
*[http://www.smspune.com/?page_id=1157 St Mary’s School, Pune] Established in 1866, the School was run until 1977 by the Sisters of the Community of St. Mary the Virgin, an Anglican order based in Wantage, England. The abbreviation Sr C S M V was used. Also see [[Nurse#Religious Orders|Nurse-Religious Orders]] for brief details of this order.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20101222021523/http://www.veritas.ie/Books/Social_Issues/General-j/The_Curious_Mind/9781847302007/details3.aspx An Indian Boyhood: Spike Milligan recalls growing up in India in the 1920s] including Poona. (scroll down) (www.veritas) archive.org links. His father was a sergeant in the British Army.
*Wikipedia article [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapekar_brothers Chapekar brothers] gives details of the 1896-1897 bubonic plague epidemic in Poona, and the murder of W C Rand, I. C. S, Chairman of the Special Plague Committee
*[http://www.deccancollegepune.ac.in/museum_maratha_history.asp Maratha History Museum at the Deccan College, Pune]
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/ Poona] ''The Imperial Gazetteer of India'' 1908 Digital South Asia Library
*[http://archive.org/stream/handbooktravelle00john#page/342/mode/2up "Map of Poona and Kirkee"] between pages 342 and 343, ''A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon'' published by John Murray, London Eighth Edition 1911 Archive.org.
*''Poona Directory and Guide 1904 '' (Times of India), "Corrected to 15 June 1904" is available to read online on the Digital Library of India. [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/83767 Pdf download, DLI]. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.83767 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/poonaguidedirect00poon#page/n13/mode/2up ''The Poona Guide and Directory''] 1922 Archive.org
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/poonaguidedirect00poon#page/2/mode/2up Poona Cantonment], page 2
*[https://archive.org/stream/fliesinrelationt00grah#page/138/mode/2up Page 139] ''Flies in Relation to Disease: non-bloodsucking flies'' by G. S. Graham- Smith. 1913 Archive.org. There is a description of the “place where the sewage of Poona was deposited” c 1905 and the connection with enteric (which includes typhoid) fever.
*[https://archive.org/details/LocalHistoryOfPoona '' A Local History Of Poona and its Battlefields''] by Colonel L W Shakespear (AQMG 6th Poona Division). 1916 Archive.org
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