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The Officer Who Looked Up

In 1819 a British officer hunting tiger in a ravine saw a doorway in the cliff above him.

The Waghora river runs through a gorge in the Sahyadris, in what is now Aurangabad district. The cliff bends around it in a horseshoe.

In 1819 a horse officer of the Madras army was out after tiger there. His name was John Smith.

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