<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f5ab1b5e-8a52-485a-acb1-66710a7d8931/1632895D-4D2C-48B0-BC93-6A4556AD06E3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Shivajis_fort_discovered_in_Pune/articleshow/3647778.cms" href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Shivajis_fort_discovered_in_Pune/articleshow/3647778.cms" style="font-size: 11px;">timesofindia.indiatimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Shivajis_fort_discovered_in_Pune/articleshow/3647778.cms"><DIV>A city <A href="#" class="kLink" target="undefined" id="KonaLink0"><FONT color="blue"><SPAN class="kLink">researcher</SPAN></FONT></A> has claimed to have discovered a fort on the Pune-Mahad route on the Varanda ghats which he says had found special <TABLE cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left"><TBODY><TR><TD id="bellyad"></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> mention in one of Shivaji’s letters to his minister Baji Prabhu Deshpande. </DIV><BR /><DIV> Sachin Joshi, an assistant researcher at the Deccan college, says that on May 13, 1659, the great Maratha warrior wrote to Deshpande on the need to strengthen the fort called Mohangad in the backdrop of a war with Afzal Khan. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Shivajis_fort_discovered_in_Pune/articleshow/3647778.cms"><DIV> Located on the banks of Neera river in the Varanda ghat, the fort is about 30 kms from Bhor in Pune district enroute to Mahad and is 1,100 feet above sea level. It takes about 90 minutes by foot from the base of the ghat, Joshi said. The assitant researcher at the Deccan college also found rare coins with Persian imprints. </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1632895D-4D2C-48B0-BC93-6A4556AD06E3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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