The original grandeur of Raste Wada, among the largest surviving mansions of its time, has faded into a sorry miscellany of varied functions two schools. PUNE: The original grandeur of Raste Wada ...

Turning a corner, I see the once-grand Raste Wada, built in 1785 by Sardar Anandrao Raste, brother-in-law of Nanasaheb Peshwa and a prominent figure in the Maratha court. The front façade is lost ...

Raste Wada is no exception.(RAVINDRA JOSHI/ HT PHOTO) Today, more than 350 years after the height of glory of the Maratha empire, Pune’s wadas are waging a final battle for survival as the civic ...

This Shiva temple was built a stone's throw away from Raste Wada in the early 1780s by Anandrao Bhikaji Raste, a scion of the Raste family that formed the second echelon in the then power hierarchy.

Rastes from Wai, who has marital relations with the Peshwas, built the stately mansion of Raste wada in the heart of this peth and had their cavalry parked nearby. It is planned on a grid pattern ...