Pune City Guide
Complete guides to Aga Khan Palace in Yerwada — timings, Gandhi and Kasturba history, architecture and 19-acre gardens.
Aga Khan Palace Pune is one of those rare heritage sites where the architecture, the history, and the landscape are each individually significant — and together create an experience unlike anything else in Maharashtra. Built in 1892 as an act of charity during a famine, it became the site of Gandhi’s imprisonment during the Quit … Read more
Aga Khan Palace history divides cleanly into two chapters separated by fifty years. In the first chapter, a wealthy imam builds a palace as an act of charity during a famine, employing thousands of people who would otherwise have gone hungry. In the second chapter, the British government uses that same palace as a prison … Read more
Aga Khan Palace architecture is a deliberate collision between two traditions — Italian Renaissance and Deccan vernacular — that somehow produces a building more coherent than the combination suggests it should be. The five broad arched bays of the main facade, the Corinthian columns, the high-ceilinged interior rooms: all of this draws from the Italian … Read more
Most heritage buildings in India tell the story of power — of kings, generals, and conquests. Aga Khan Palace Pune tells a different story. It was built as an act of charity by a man who wanted to give employment to those who had none. It then became, through no design of its own, the … Read more