The Pune Aitihasik Vastu Smriti (; ) is an historical society established under the Lokmanya Tilak Smarak Trust on 5 November 1995, in Pune, Maharashtra in India.
Between 1995 and 2004, the society installed numerous commemorative plaques honouring individuals important to the history of Pune and the culture of Maharashtra. The plaques are installed posthumously, usually outside the honoured individual's residence during their lifetime. The founder of the society, Jayant Shridhar Tilak, modelled it after English Heritage, and their installation of blue plaques across Greater London.
The society further published a guide book-cum-biographical dictionary under the label of Pune Heritage in two volumes, in 1996 and 2004. The volumes detail the location of every blue plaque across Pune, and include biographies of the individuals honoured dually in English and Marathi.
The first plaque installed was that of writer Shivram Mahadev Paranjape in November 1995, where as the 100th plaque installed was that of humorist Purushottam Laxman Deshpande in February 2004. In 2010, several more plaques were inaugurated for Maharashtra Day. By 2020, there were a total of 135 plaques which had been installed, however they were poorly maintained.
List of plaques Honouree Date Shivram Mahadev Paranjape 12 November 1995 Hirabai Barodekar 20 November 1995 Shripad Mahadev Mate 26 November 1995 Baburao Ganapatrao Jagtap 3 December 1995 Gopal Vinayak Bhonde 10 December 1995 Krishnarao Phulambrikar 17 December 1995 Vitthal Ramji Shinde 24 December 1995 Kerunana Chhatre 31 December 1995 D. B. Deodhar 7 January 1996 Hari Narayan Apte 14 January 1996 Damodar Gangaram Dhotre 21 January 1996 Dhananjay Ramchandra Gadgil 28 January 1996 D. B. Limaye 4 February 1996 Annasaheb Patwardhan 11 February 1996 Vasudev Balwant Phadke 18 February 1996 V. B. Gogate 26 February 1996 Gopal Hari Deshmukh 3 March 1996 Abasaheb Mujumdar 9 March 1996 Ramabai Ranade 24 March 1996 Raghunath Shastri Patwardhan 31 March 1996 Deenanath Mangeshkar 7 April 1996 Bal Gangadhar Tilak 23 June 1996 Gopal Ganesh Agarkar Vaman Shivram Apte D. R. Bendre 30 June 1996 Shankar Vaman Dandekar Ganpat Mahadev Nalawade 14 July 1996 Datto Vaman Potdar 6 October 1996 Narasimha Chintaman Kelkar 14 October 1996 Popatlal Shah 20 October 1996 R. P. Paranjpye 27 October 1996 L. B. Bhopatkar 3 November 1996 Gopal Krishna Gokhale 17 November 1996 Shivrampant Damle 24 November 1996 Madhav Julian 29 November 1996 G. D. Madgulkar 24 December 1996 Jyotirao Phule 3 January 1997 Narayan Sitaram Phadke 19 January 1997 Bhaskarbuwa Bakhale 2 February 1997 Bal Gandharva 9 February 1997 Kashibai Kanitkar 12 March 1997 Pralhad Keshav Atre 16 March 1997 Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar 19 March 1997 Shripad Krishna Belvalkar 25 May 1997 M. R. Jayakar 20 July 1997 P. N. Rajbhoj 27 July 1997 S. L. Kirloskar 3 August 1997 Chapekar brothers 10 August 1997 Krishnarao Gangurde 18 August 1997 Keshav Vaman Bhole 24 August 1997 Ramkrishnabuwa Vaze 31 August 1997 Anandi Gopal Joshi 28 September 1997 Shankarrao More 12 October 1997 Vinayakrao Patwardhan 9 December 1997 Nanasaheb Phatak 23 August 1998 Nana Maharaj Sakhare 13 September 1998 Anant Vishnu Damle Shaikh Fattelal Yasin Mistri V. Shantaram 4 October 1998 Dhondo Keshav Karve 9 November 1998 Anandi Karve Raghunath Damodar Khanivale 26 November 1998 Mahadev Govind Ranade 29 November 1998 H. V. Tulpule 3 January 1999 Yashwant Dinkar Pendharkar 31 January 1999 Shankar Keshav Kanetkar Shridhar Balkrishna Ranade Mahadev Ballal Namjoshi 21 February 1999 P. G. Sahasrabuddhe 14 March 1999 Shankar Shyamji Gaikwad 28 March 1999 Vasukaka Joshi 18 April 1999 Ganesh Krishna Gadre Kusumagraj 6 June 1999 Krushnashastri Chiplunkar 30 July 1999 Vishnushastri Krushnashastri Chiplunkar B. M. Gupte 29 August 1999 Vasudev Shastri Mahadev Abhyankar 22 November 1999 Kashinath Vasudev Abhyankar Nilkanth Shankar Navare 28 November 1999 Bhargavram Achrekar 23 March 2000 Pandita Ramabai 7 May 2000 Baba Padmanji Vasudeo Sitaram Bendrey 16 July 2000 G. S. Mahajani 27 August 2000 Balakrishna Bhagwant Borkar 8 October 2000 Ganesh Shastri Joshi 20 October 2000 Narayan Govind Chapekar 25 February 2001 Gangadhar Balkrushna Sardar 1 April 2001 Viththal Dattatreya Ghate 7 May 2001 R. S. Jog 15 May 2001 Shripad Dattatraya Deshpande 2 July 2001 Vishnubuwa Jog 5 July 2001 Y. G. Joshi 26 August 2001 Shreedhar Mahadev Joshi 12 November 2001 Raghunath Keshav Khadilkar 16 December 2001 Chintaman Vinayak Joshi 6 January 2002 Narayan Ganesh Gore 17 February 2002 C. Ramchandra 2 June 2002 Chhota Gandharva 7 July 2002 Walchand Ramchand Kothari 14 July 2002 Dadasaheb Torne 15 September 2002 Sadashiv Govind Barve 22 December 2002 Sadashiv Vinayak Bapat 2 February 2003 Vishram Bedekar 16 February 2003 Malati Bedekar Vaman Dattatreya Gulwani 30 March 2003 Makrand Govind Bhave 7 December 2003 Vasantrao Deshpande 14 December 2003 Shahu Modak 11 January 2004 Chandrashekhar Agashe 18 January 2004 Purushottam Laxman Deshpande 29 February 2004
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