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In June 2023, the Indian Government placed restrictions on Westerners access to all parts of this location.
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![Map of Meherabad as it was in 1923, when Baba first came. Drawn by Elaine Cox, courtesy of AMB Trust Archives, India.](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=710x10000:format=jpg/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/i701bd91076fa118d/version/1683085925/image.jpg)
![Present day aerial map of Meherabad district. Yellow marker shows Meher Baba's Samadhi. Map graphics by Anthony Zois.](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=710x10000:format=jpg/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/iade306254f01d325/version/1632165322/image.jpg)
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![Present day aerial map of Ahmednagar district map. Yellow markers show both Meher Baba's Samadhi and Meherazad locations. Map graphics by Anthony Zois.](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=710x10000:format=jpg/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/iab1eb50ba105fa01/version/1632165162/image.jpg)
MAP OF UPPER & LOWER MEHERABAD 1921-23 ; PREPARED BY S.D.SATHE, ENGINEER, AHMEDNAGAR
Aerial Photographs of Meherabad
Before 1920s
Ahmednagar Fort, in Ahmednagar city was the centre of the British cantonment used by artillery and infantry units, primarily between 1849 and 1921. In 1913
a Remount Depot was established to house 500 horses. In 1921, six Armoured Car companies were based there and in 1924 a Royal Tank Corps School was established at Ahmednagar. This School was the
forerunner of the Fighting Vehicle School, and the area is now occupied by the Indian Armament & Electronics Regiment. Most of the barracks and bungalows which existed are still in
use.
A remote hillside about six miles outside the city at Arangaon was leased by the British Indian Army towards the end of the First World War to house two
(plague) segregation camps, supervised by the 2nd/102nd King Edward's Own Grenadiers and the 2nd/128th Pioneers of the Indian Army in 1919 on what later became known as Meherabad Hill. By 1921, during the famine of that year, the land was acquired by Kaikhushru and Gulmai Irani.
Reply from: Alan Greveson to Mick Karger
Date: Tuesday 20th November 2012 at 9:16 PM
POST OFFICE
![Model of the Post Office building. There are no pictures of the Post Office and it was dismantled in 1933 by order of the British Indian government. This model was made by Ted Judson based on Mehera and Mani’s description.](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=710x10000:format=jpg/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/ibe1a6ce147a2b931/version/1683095425/image.jpg)
![The neem tree that Baba sat under on May 4th 1923 (on a masonry parapet round it at that time), and also slept under on His first night at Meherabad. Photo taken by Kitty Muir.](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=710x10000:format=jpg/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/i16312a12d93b3822/version/1683095129/image.jpg)
![Baba's table and Dhuni at Lower Meherabad photographed in the first week of February, 1969. Courtesy of Sriramamoorthy Collection & AMBCCPT](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/none/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/i1307425455ea25ef/version/1580855663/image.jpg)
1920s
![The Shrine of Gilori Shah -Moula near the well. Photo taken by Kitty Muir. Courtesy of the AMB Trust Archives, India.](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/none/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/i90c6de87e005ca08/version/1683095006/image.jpg)
RAHURI CABIN
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![February 12th 1975 : The women mandali were gathered to commerate the lighting of the dhuni fire after the Amartithi period. Liz is seated next to Mehera Irani ( standing with red scarf ). Photo taken by Anthony Zois.](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=710x10000:format=jpg/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/ib16ca2947ad26074/version/1653072473/image.jpg)
![February 12th 1975 : The women mandali were gathered to commerate the lighting of the dhuni fire after the Amartithi period. Liz is seated next to Mehera Irani ( red scarf ). Photo taken by Anthony Zois.](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=710x10000:format=jpg/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/i54e730e58d27d67f/version/1653072442/image.jpg)
![February 12th 1975 : The women mandali were gathered to commerate the lighting of the dhuni fire after the Amartithi period. Liz is seated next to Mehera Irani ( red scarf ). Photo taken by Anthony Zois.](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=710x10000:format=jpg/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/i7685d3db947cca39/version/1653072428/image.jpg)
![The well mentioned by Ramjoo Jaffer, with the neem tree behind it on the left-hand. Photograph courtesy Heather Nadel.](https://image.jimcdn.com/app/cms/image/transf/dimension=710x10000:format=jpg/path/se80bcf7e1bbfb507/image/i724f32b7b5078f55/version/1683095237/image.jpg)
Peter Nordeen's presentation on the founding of Meherabad
Meher Baba in Meherabad, 1926
Meher Pilgrim Centre 'MPC'
Men's Cemetry
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Memorial Tower
GREGG ROSEN PAINTINGS
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February 1975
Photos taken by Anthony Zois
Australian pilgrim bus departing