Editing Pune (section)

====Centre of Social Reform and Nationalism====
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Pune was prominently associated with the [[Indian independence movement|struggle for Indian independence]]. In the period between 1875 and 1910, the city was a centre of agitation led by [[Gopal Krishna Gokhale]] and [[Bal Gangadhar Tilak]]. The city was also a centre for social reform led by [[Gopal Ganesh Agarkar]], [[Mahatma Jyotirao Phule]], feminist [[Tarabai Shinde]], [[Dhondo Keshav Karve]] and [[Pandita Ramabai]]. They demanded the abolition of caste prejudice, equal rights for women, harmony between the [[Hindus|Hindu]] and [[Muslims|Muslim]] communities, and better schools for the poor.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/104203/the-other-liberal-light|title=The Other Liberal Light|magazine=The New Republic|access-date=28 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180620001120/https://newrepublic.com/article/104203/the-other-liberal-light|archive-date=20 June 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Mahatma Gandhi]] was imprisoned at the [[Yerwada Central Jail]] several times and placed under house arrest at the [[Aga Khan Palace]] between 1942 and 1944, where both his wife [[Kasturba Gandhi]] and aide [[Mahadev Desai]] died.<ref name="Severance1997">{{cite book|author=John B. Severance|title=Gandhi, Great Soul|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BrWhSlAI6QAC&pg=PA9|year=1997|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|isbn=978-0-395-77179-2|pages=113–115}}</ref> [[Vinayak Damodar Savarkar|Savarkar]] used to study in [[Fergusson College]] and performed the "[[Holi]]" of foreign items near [[Mutha river]] bank {{Citation needed|date=February 2022}}.