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Early life
Peshwa administration
Maloji Ghorpade, Sardar Raste and Babuji Naik. During this time the Maratha Empire although weakened by
the Panipat war of 1761, was still signicant in size with a
number of vassal states under a treaty of protection who
recognized the Peshwa as the supreme power in the region..
VILLAGE OF MENAVALI
Nana died at Pune on the 13th of March 1800, just before Peshwa Baji Rao II placed himself in the hands of
the British, provoking the Second Anglo-Maratha War
that began the breakup of the Maratha confederacy. In
an extant letter to the Peshwa, the Marquess Wellesley
describes[2] him thus: The able minister of your state,
whose upright principles and honourable views and whose
zeal for the welfare and prosperity both of the dominions
of his own immediate superiors and of other powers were
so justly celebrated.
After Nana Phadnavis died in 1800, the Peshwa BajiraoII, conscated the Wada.
Village of Menavali
The British General Wellesley (brother of Lord Wellesley), Duke of Wellington returned the property to the
Nanas wife Jeeubai on 25 March 1804.
After her death, Sir Bartle Frere (governor of Bombay)
handed over the property to Nanas descendants. The
Nana Phadnavis Wada today remains with his descendants. Having split the major part of his properties between themselves, the Wada is still owned jointly by them
all.
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the wall leads out of the Wada. Descending the stone
steps leads to the ghat on the river Krishna.
The lm crew of the Bollywood movie Swades, once
camped at the ghat to shoot some footage. The crew
cleaned and painted the old stone walls of the ghat and
the temples.
On descending the steps and turning right, one sees a
peaceful and rather drab view of Pandavgarh in the distance.
Nana Phadnavis constructed two temples on the Krishna
ghat, when he built his wada. One temple was dedicated
to Lord Vishnu. The other to Meneshwar () Lord
Shiva.
The bell house of the Meneshwar temple houses a six
hundred and fty kilogram bell. This bell was captured
by Bajirao-1s brother Chimaji Appa, from a cathedral in
the Portuguese fort at Bassein. Dated 1707, the ve-alloy
bell bears a bas-relief of Mary carrying the infant Jesus
Christ cast into it.
An ancient tree, with a massive coniform trunk has a platform constructed around it as old as the Wada itself. This
tree featured in the Bollywood movie Swades. In the
movie, the village elders hold a Panchayat on the stone
platform around this tree.
Several Bollywood movies have been shot, using the wada
as an exotic location, notably, Yudh (Jackie Shro/Tina
Munim), Mrutyudand (Madhuri Dixit), Goonj Uthi
Shahnai, Jis Desh Me Ganga Rahata Hai (Govinda),
Ganga-jal (Ajay Devgan), Sarja (Ajinkya Deo) and
Swades (Shahrukh Khan, Gayatri Joshi).
External links
Nana Phadnavis, the rationalist
[Nana Phadnis by YN Deodhar,Popular Book Depot, 1962]
Notes
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm,
Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopdia Britannica
(11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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