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Nana Fadnavis (Pronunciation: [naːna pʰəɖɳəʋiːs, fəɖ-]; also Phadnavis and Furnuwees and abbreviated as Phadnis) (12 February 1742 [citation needed] – 13 March 1800), born Balaji Janardan Bhanu, was a Maratha minister and statesman during the Peshwa administration in Pune, India.
Mar 12, 2023 · Nana Phadnavis was a Maratha Empire minister and statesman during the Peshwa administration in Pune, India. According to James Grant Duff, he was dubbed "the Maratha...
This palace (wada) at village Menavli was constructed by Rajamanya Rajashri Nana Faadnavis in 1770s and is situated on the banks of Krishna River. The 250+ year old wada structure comprises of the main stone plinth above which rises the two storeyed wooden framed structures with walls made of bricks and dried mud, hay and lime mortar.
Jul 11, 2020 · Nana Phadnavis played an important role in holding the Maratha Confederacy together in the midst of internal dissension and the growing power of the British East India Company. The First Anglo-Maratha war ended in 1782 and for the next two decades there was no important war between the British and the Marathas.
Nana Fadnavis, who was originally known as Balaji Janardan Bhanu, existed as an eminent and influential Peshwa of the Maratha Empire during the Peshwa administration in Pune, India. The Europeans often called Nana Fadnavis "the Mahratta Machiavelli".
Nana Fadnavis, born Balaji Janardan Bhanu, was a Maratha minister and statesman during the Peshwa administration in Pune, India. James Grant Duff states that he... English
Madhu Rao Narayan, the Maratha Peshwa, with Nana Fadnavis and attendants, 1792. Oil on canvas: 228 x 190 cm By James Wales. Presented by the wife of Major-General Archibald Robertson, 4 March 1854. The portrait was commissioned by the Peshwa shortly after James Wales arrived in Pune in July 1792.
"I was early disposed to worship the deity," wrote Nana Fadnavis, a nineteen-year-old admin-istrator at the Maratha court in Pune in western India, in his 1761 autobiography. His piety attracted him to art. As a child, he recalled, he possessed "the habit of forming lumps of clay into the shapes which are commonly. . . in the temples."
Jan 10, 2015 · Exactly 240 years before Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis took oath of office, another Fadnavis had sworn to protect a 40-day old Peshwa, thereby becoming one of the most powerful men in India. He was Nana Fadnavis.
Born as Balaji Janardan Bhanu, he was an influential statesman of the Maratha Empire during the Peshwa administration in Pune. He served as subordinate Prime Minister to the Chhatrapati (Emperor). He was the main minister who held key portfolios of Administration and Finance or Phadnavis (Fadnavis).
