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This week we had the pleasure of hosting H.H Shrimant Yuvraj Yeshwantrao lll Holkar Bahadur at our office in Pune, MH. Amongst the many, many hats he wears - he is importantly Chairman, Khasgi Trust and Founder, Holkar Cultural Centre. Through them, he has been actively conserving and promoting the rich legacy of Lokmata Punyashlok Devi Ahilyabai Holkar and the Royal Holkars of Indore. We are honoured to be a small part of this movement and humbly, sensitively grow with it.

We continue our preservation of the precious 'Behere Diary'. The Behere family had served in the Banda and Jhansi principalities in various capacities during the late Maratha and British India periods. The Diary reflects a vast, strong Hindustani influence on a family of simple Marathi origins - a common theme with many ambitious, migrating Maharashtrian families of the 18th and 19th CE. The Behere Kul are Chitpavan Brahmins from the Konkan, of Babhravya Gotra. Members of the family undertook an exodus during the Peshwa period, to various regions of the Maratha Empire. Banda in the Bundelkhand was the Peshwas own familial principality, created by Shrimant Bajirao l Peshwa, and was ruled by his descendants - the Nawabs of Banda descended from Mastani Baisaheb.

From Ink Consolidation to avoid text loss to Tissue Lining that creates a protective layer for each folio and Strip Lining to reinforce the brittle edges of the pages- all prove instrumental in making the book live a safe longer life.