Shaniwar Wada (info1, info2, info3, info4)

Dilli Darwaja, main gate

Mansion of the Peshwas

Inside view (more)

Gutted by fire in 1827

Original was built ~1730

Now a place for gup-shup

Once a fountain

Peshwa Baji Rao I

Over a thousand people
once lived inside

Encircled by high walls,
bastions, and gateways

Palace of Dughai
Bungalow

A Sufi dargah on site

Lal Mahaal, Nana Wada (info), Vishrambaug Wada

Lal Mahaal, Shivaji's
childhood home

Built in 1630 by a
Brahmin administrator

Nana Wada, built in
1780 (1, 2)

Residence of Nana
Phadnavis, a statesman
of the Maratha Empire

Combines Peshwa and
British Gothic Revival
architecture

Now houses a museum of
somewhat nauseating
nationalistic history

Attractive arches and
corridors, upper floor
hosts a municipal office

Vishrambaug Wada,
residence of Peshwa Baji
Rao II, the last Peshwa

Phule Wada (info)

Outside Phule Wada,
home to the two Phules

Built around 1852 (more)

Home to Jyotirao and
Savitribai Phule

Courtyard with a well

Courtyard from veranda

A long room in the house

Educating girls

A 19th century "power
couple" worth admiring

In 1868, the Phules
opened their well to
the "untouchables" 

In 1873, J. Phule formed
the Satyashodhak Samaj
(Society of Truth Seekers)
and published Gulamgiri

In the 1876-77 famine
Savitri-Jyotirao fed and
cared for ~200 children

Jyotirao Phule

Aga Khan Place

Built by Muhammed
Shah Aga Khan III

Once served as a prison
for Gandhi, his wife, etc.

Now hosts The Gandhi
Museum (more)

Depicts the history of the
Quit India Movement

Gandhi statue (more)

Gandhi in meditation

Kasturba Gandhi Smarak

The palace and its lawns

Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum (info)

Main entrance

Corridor leading inside

Wooden elephant for
storing grains, 18th cent.

A room in the museum
(more)

Playful Ganesha!

Jay, wood,
Tamil Nadu, 18th cent.

Vijay, wood,
Tamil Nadu, 18th cent.

Panchmukhi Maruti (info)

Minakshi, wood,
Tamil Nadu, 19th cent.

Mahishasurmardini,
WB, 18th cent. (info)

Dancer, stone
Halebid, 13th cent.

String puppets, or
Kathputhlis

Mother and child, 19th
cent. Maharashtra (more)

Textiles

Leather puppets

Various lamps

Musical instruments (info)

Various string instruments

What's going on here?!

Mastani Mahal (info)

Ivory door, 18th cent.

Front door, 18th cent.

Ivory door, 19th cent.

Exquisite doorway

Deccan College Archaeology Museum

Deccan college of
archaeology (more)

Archaeology museum
galleries

Megalithic cultures (info)

Megalithic cultures

"Lifestyle of Megalithic
Culture of Vidarbha"

Burial methods

Burial methods

Excavation method of
stone circle burial

The living megalithism

Reconstruction of Iron
smelting Furnace of
Megalithic Culture

Researches in Historical
Archaeology at Deccan
College (text)

Brahmi through ages

Indian architecture (info)

Indian architecture

Indian architecture

Ethnoarchaeology

Coinage (info)

Prehistory gallery (info)

Pots from Prabhas Patan
Somnath, c. 2200 BCE

Pre-Harappan pottery,
4000–3000 BCE

Twin-urn burial from
Chalcolithic Inamgaon
(c. 900 BCE)

A Symbolic Burial
400-1000 BCE
Early Jorwe Phase

A Burial
400-1000 BCE
Early Jorwe Phase

Storage jars,
1500-700 BCE (more)

Tribal Cultural Museum

The museum entrance

Art outside the museum

Cultural and religious
artifacts

Museum canteen

Art on outside walls

Art on outside walls

Art on outside walls

Art on outside walls

Tribal gods & goddesses

Raja Panta-Ganda
Thakur, village protector
deity of the Bhils

Udata Ghoda, a god
that dispels evil spirits

Hiwarya Mogra,
a Bhil god made of clay

Telarin Mata, a goddess
of the Gond

Mata, clay idols of the
Madia Gonds worshipped
as village deities

Bhutan, a village
protector deity of the Bhils

Tribal deities (more)

Adivasi musical
instruments

Tabli, musical instrument
of the Koli Mahadev &
Thakkars, played while
singing religious songs.

Ghangli, stringed musical
instrument used by Warli
shamans called "Ghangli
Bhagats" in rituals.(more)

Kirkis, an accompanying
musical instrument made
of bamboo, Pawara tribe

Side rhythm instruments

Tribal musical
instruments

Household utensils (info)

Tondya, vessel made of
dried pumpkin, used to
store Tadi (country liquor)

Wooden craft (info)

Wood carving

Musada, a wooden mask

Mother and child

Lion atop an elephant

Mother and child

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Hunting gadgets (info)

Agricultural Implements

Musical instruments (info)

Musical instruments

Musical instruments

Metal craft (info)

Various tribes & artifacts

Various tribes & artifacts

Various tribes & artifacts

Various tribes & artifacts

Birsa Munda (more)

Wooden sculpture

Wooden sculpture

Mundha, marriage pillar

Ornaments (info)

Madia ornaments

Madiya woman

Wooden combs

Art outside the museum

Art outside the museum

Art outside the museum

Art outside the museum

Dagadusheth Halwai Ganapati Temple

The temple (more)

Golden Ganesha (more)

Stall outside the temple

Street near the temple
(more)

Pataleshwar Caves

An 8th-century rock-cut
Hindu temple (more)

Circular Nandi Mandapa

Pillared hall (more)

Shivalingam inside

Monolithic excavation

Pillared mandapa

Pillared mandapa

Dedicated to Shiva