Flashback: Pune – People and Places Around the 1700s – Ulka Athale, Tania Kamath

Description

Know your city, discover your heritage!

Why does Pune have peths named after the days of the week?

Why are there no windows on the ground floors of many old wadas?

This is not a fact file on history. There are hardly any kings. There are no battles. What you see instead is how people lived, where they worked, what they did for fun. They’ve walked down the same streets as we do today. We are all aprt of the same city, seperated only by time.

Turn to any page to discover fascinating nuggets about this city through puzzles and activities. But better still, grad the book and explore the sites mentioned here!