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PLACES
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SHIRDHON
Sirdhon (Panvel T., 18°55' N, 73°05' E; RS. Karjat, 18; p. 1359)
This village is the birth-place of Vasudeo Balvant Phadke who is remembered as
one who organized an armed insurrection against the British power during the
Sixties of the 19th Century but was quickly overpowered and transported for life
to Aden. A memorial has been erected to his memory by a Committee in Bombay with the co-operation of the inhabitants of Sirdhon, and the Government of Maharastra. It is in the form of a community building constructed at a cost of Rs. 40,000. The building consists of three spacious rooms one of which houses a maternity ward where a nurse is permanently posted. It has two beds and two cradles and necessary
surgical instruments. In another room is kept a goat-cart in which Vasudeo Balvant used to ride. These two rooms admeasure as 18' x 25'. In front of this building there is sufficient space for open air theatrical performances. What is intended to be a green-room does service as an office-room at present.
Vasudeo Balvant's Kinsmen in Panvel arranged for the erection of a Deepastambha facing East near a water reservoir in the village and in front of a temple in 1940. The reservoir is surrounded by a mango-grove and thus makes a good resting place. Both these memorials are within a seven minutes walk from the Bombay-Kohkan-Goa State Highway at the foot of the Karnala Hill.
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