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Lal Mahal
 In its present renovated avatar, a formation of the Pune Municipal Corporation in 1983, the Lal Mahal resembles more a sandstone- red palace, than a traditional Wada. Historians assume it to have been built by Dadaji Konddev in 1640, two years after he had ownership of the city from the Adilshahi Sultans.Konddev brought Shivaji up here, and hence the modern structure built accords pride of place to a marble bust of Jijabai.
It was also in this configuration that the Mughal general Shaista Khan sent by his king and nephew Aurangazeb to end Shivaji's political power lost three fingers while trying to escape through the window on being taken by surprise by a small band of Maratha soldiers in the dark of the night.
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