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Bhawanrao Pant Pratinidhi

1868–1951 · 20th century · Also known as Bhawanrao Shriniwasrao Pant Pratinidhi

Bhawanrao Pant Pratinidhi was the Raja of Aundh, a small Maratha state near Satara, from 1909 to 1947. A painter and patron of the arts, he did much to popularise the surya namaskar exercise. In 1938, with advice from Mahatma Gandhi, he introduced the Aundh Experiment, a constitution giving villages self-government, one of the earliest experiments in democratic rule in a princely state.

Bhawanrao Pant Pratinidhi
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Aundh State

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