Aga Khan Palace.Grand Italianate palace set in extensive gardens on the outskirts of Pune. It has long verandahs, arches and green lawns and now houses the Gandhi National Memorial, with rooms preserved as they were during Mahatma Gandhi’s internment, plus a small museum and samadhi of Kasturba Gandhi. Visitors experience both architectural beauty and freedom-struggle memory here.
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History & highlights
Built in 1892 by Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III to provide employment to local people during a famine, the palace later gained historic importance during the Quit India Movement. In 1942, Mahatma Gandhi, Kasturba Gandhi and Mahadev Desai were imprisoned here by the British; Kasturba and Desai both passed away on the premises, and their memorials are in the campus. The building was donated to the nation by Aga Khan in 1969 and is now preserved by the Archaeological Survey of India as a key monument of India’s independence history.
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