Manekwada : Prof Mānekrao (née Gajānan Yashwant) had started a gymnasium in mid-19th century to continue the age-old Maratha tradition of training young men in all branches of physical education. Situated in the Dāndia Bazar locality of Baroda, it trained many revolutionaries among whom the Purani brothers. When Sri Aurobindo was in Baroda in January 1908, after the Surat Congress, he gave a public speech at the Mānekwādā gymnasium besides the one he gave the Vānkāner Theatre. A.B. Purani attended that speech with his elder brother; the gymnasium movement that they then started in 1909 – inspired by Sri Aurobindo & designed by his brother Barindra, to prepare several categories of freedom fighters; the movement spread of Gujarat & is still active in imparting physical education.
... Of the 35 institutions already existing, several have been discontinued owing to the cessation of the special need for which they were created; for instance the military dispensaries at Deesa and Manekwada came to a natural end with the cessation of the contingents there stationed. On the other hand 24 new institutions have been established, 20 dispensaries, 2 veterinary dispensaries, one Lunatic and ...
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