Khed Shivapur

Khed Shivapur is a village at a distance of about 50 km from Pune on Mumbai-Bangalore highway after Katraj ghat and New Katraj Tunnel of 1458 meters. Khed shivapur is the dargah of Hazrat Quamar Ali Durvesh Bapuji Mudgal Deshpande was one of the first settlers of Khed Shivapur village in south of Pune. He pursued many Maratha and Muslim families to settle down in this newly developed village.

Eight hundred years ago, a Muslim family consisting of a father, mother and son, arrived from the West of India to live in the nearby village of Darodi. At that time a gymnasium existed on the spot where the shrine now stands. Two large stones were used by wrestlers for exercise purposes. A group of men would surround a stone and lift it to strengthen their hands, wrists and forearms. The boy's parents insisted that their son visit the gymnasium and indulge in the manly sports. But the boy, Qamar Ali Darvesh was not like the others.

The young boy's interests lay in other directions. He exhibited a hypersensitive nature and appeared to possess strange paranormal powers even at an early age. Being the `outcast' of the gymnasium he continually suffered the mockery of the other members. His lack of interest in competitive sport plus his physical inadequacy branded him a `weakling' in the eyes of the more athletically minded. "You think I'm stupid and weak... that I'm not capable of being like you" he one day replied. "Let me tell you this. With all your strength you will not be able to lift the rocks in the manner I prescribe unless you repeat my name".

There is a major population of people having last name Konde (Konde Deshmukh) in this village now turned into a small town. Major business here is agriculture and major crop grown here is sugarcane.

Some of Konde families of here moved to Dhamankhel village in junnar taluka and Gurholi village in Purandhar taluka of pune district around 1800.