offered Rs 50,000 for construction of the guest house which is called "Nizam Guest House". The office of the university was operated at Nizam Guest House until June 1, 1949. Vandalism in 2004 The institute was vandalized on 5 January 2004 by a mob composed of members of an extremist self-styled Maratha youth squad, calling themselves the Sambhaji Brigade, named after the elder son of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. The incident provoked widespread reaction and led historian Gajanan Mehendale to destroy parts of his in-progress biography of Shivaji. The vandalism and the subsequent ban on the book were denounced in a statement by historians, among whom were R.S. Sharma, R.C. Thakran, Suraj Bhan, Irfan Habib, D N Jha, Shireen Moosvi and K. M. Shrimali. Oxford University Press, publisher of James Laine's Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India, withdrew the book after protests from historian Ninad Bedekar and other right-wing politicians due to what they claimed to be 'objectionable' statements about Shivaji Maharaj. See also Pandurang Vaman Kane Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute References External links The Official Website of BORI Indology South Asian manuscripts Archives in India Research institutes in Pune Historiography of India Universities and colleges in Pune Educational institutions established in 1917 1917 establishments in India