Pune

Pune, formerly Poona, is a city on the Deccan plateau in Maharashtra, western India. Shivaji spent his youth there, and in the 18th century it became the seat of the Peshwas, the Maratha chief ministers, with their palace of Shaniwar Wada. The British took it in 1817 during the Third Anglo-Maratha War. It later became a centre of education and social reform.