Shri Gangadhar Shastri Gune Ayurved Mahavidyalaya is a Maharashtra Government Grant-in-Aid Ayurvedic medical college located at Vishrambaug, Maliwada, Ahmednagar — 414001, Maharashtra, run by the trust Ayurved Shastra Seva Mandal. Founded on 8th May 1917 by the late Vaidya Panchanan Gangadhar Shastri Gune, the institution is among the oldest Ayurvedic colleges in India, predating even most of the famous Ayurvedic institutions of the post-independence era by several decades. Shastriji, a devoted stalwart of Ayurveda, was directly inspired by Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak's conviction — articulated in Tilak's own writings — that Ayurvedic education across India needed standardisation and uniformity. At the time, the British colonial administration was largely unsympathetic to Ayurveda, and roughly 140 different, mutually inconsistent Ayurvedic courses were being taught across the country under a patchwork of separate faculties and boards, with no common standard. Against this backdrop, Ayurved Shastra Seva Mandal was established as the institute's parent body in a centrally located part of historic Ahmednagar city, and the college itself initially conducted a sequence of pre-standardisation Ayurvedic diploma courses — AVV, AVT, DASF, GAFM, and MFAM — through the Ayurvedic faculty based in Bombay, before evolving into its present form as a permanently established BAMS (Ayurvedacharya) institution governed by the Ministry of AYUSH and recognised by the Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM), New Delhi — now succeeded by the National Commission for Indian System of Medicine (NCISM). The college's historical significance extends well beyond Ayurvedic education. Because Ayurved Shastra Seva Mandal's founding was itself an act of cultural assertion during the freedom struggle, the institute became a gathering point and, in the pre-independence period, a safe shelter for numerous freedom fighters. Over the following century it has hosted some of the towering figures of modern India: Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, and Lokmanya Tilak himself are all recorded as having visited the institute, alongside Swami Ramanand Tirth, former Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Speaker Balasaheb Bharde, former Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, and Swami Vardanand (the former Principal, Vaidya A.D. Athawale). Few Ayurvedic colleges anywhere in India can claim this density of association with the national movement and India's post-independence political and social history. Today the college is affiliated with Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS), Nashik — its affiliating university since 1999, having previously been affiliated with the University of Pune. It holds the NCISM College Code AYU0144 and, per the official NCISM List of Permitted Ayurveda Colleges for the academic year 2025-26, has been granted Extended Permission for an intake capacity of 60 seats (73 seats inclusive of EWS supernumerary allocation) in the undergraduate BAMS programme, with no postgraduate (MD/MS) seats currently sanctioned at this institution — making this a focused, single-programme UG Ayurvedic college rather than a combined UG-PG institution. As a Grant-in-Aid college, the Director of Ayurved, Government of Maharashtra, provides a 100% grant toward staff salaries, placing the institution on a stable financial footing distinct from purely private, self-financed Ayurvedic colleges; it is additionally registered as a charitable institution with the Charity Commissioner, Maharashtra State, under Registration No. F-2. The BAMS (Ayurvedacharya) programme follows the standard NCISM-prescribed structure of 5.5 years — 4.5 years of academic study across the foundational, para-clinical, and clinical phases, followed by a compulsory one-year rotatory internship. Teaching is delivered across fourteen dedicated academic departments, each maintaining its own infrastructure as documented in the college's official NCISM compliance records: Samhita (Ayurved Samhita & Siddhanta), Kriya Sharir (Physiology), Rachana Sharir (Anatomy), Dravyaguna (Pharmacology & Materia Medica), Rasashastra & Bhaishajya Kalpana (Pharmaceutics), Rognidan (Diagnostics & Pathology), Agadtantra (Toxicology & Medical Jurisprudence), Swasthavritta (Preventive & Community Medicine), Kayachikitsa (Internal Medicine), Shalyatantra (General Surgery), Shalakyatantra (ENT & Ophthalmology), Panchakarma, Stri Rog (Gynaecology & Obstetrics), and Balroga (Paediatrics). The college reports a faculty strength in the low thirties (per Careers360) against a total student enrolment of around 263, supporting reasonably close faculty-student engagement for a single-programme institution; the college's own published institutional highlights cite over 5,000 alumni, more than a century of combined faculty experience, and over 100 recruiter and industry-collaboration touchpoints accumulated across its long institutional history. Clinical training takes place at the college's attached teaching hospital on the adjoining campus, whose documented infrastructure includes a full Outpatient Department (OPD) and Inpatient Department (IPD), an Operation Theatre, a dedicated Panchakarma Block, a Physiotherapy unit, a Clinical (Pathology) Laboratory, a Labour Room for obstetric care, and a separate Hospital Canteen — giving BAMS students structured exposure across both classical Ayurvedic therapeutics and essential surgical, diagnostic, and obstetric clinical training throughout their final professional years and internship. The broader campus infrastructure, as listed in the college's own NCISM-facing documentation, additionally includes an Administrative Office, dedicated Classrooms, an Audio-Visual Room, a Seminar Hall, a Central Library, departmental Pharmacy infrastructure supporting the Rasashastra & Bhaishajya Kalpana department, a Common Room, secure Strong Rooms, a Gymkhana (sports facility), a Canteen, and vending-machine amenities for students. Independent third-party listings additionally describe a herbal garden of more than 215 medicinal plant species supporting Dravyaguna practical training, separate hostel accommodation for boys and girls (reported capacities of approximately 52 male and 30 female residents), a computer laboratory, a guest house, gymnasium facilities, and an indoor stadium — collectively reflecting a campus designed to support both academic and residential student life across the full duration of the BAMS programme. Governance of the institution rests with Ayurved Shastra Seva Mandal's Board, currently chaired by Shri Arun Balbhimrao Jagtap (Chairman), with MLA Shri Sangram Arun Jagtap serving as Vice-Chairman, Dr. Vijay Manakchand Bhandari as Honorary Secretary, and Shri Sachin Arunrao Jagtap as Assistant Honorary Secretary, supported by a board of eleven additional Directors and the college Principal as an ex-officio Board member. The Principal's office (per the official college website, where the incumbent's professional registration details — MCIM Registration I-43261-A1, date of joining 25th April 2008 — are published, though the name itself was not extractable from the page's underlying text content at the time of this record's compilation) leads a faculty team whose stated institutional mission emphasises not merely the transfer of textbook knowledge but the cultivation of self-reliant, socially empathetic, research-oriented Ayurvedic physicians equipped to integrate indigenous Ayurvedic treatment with relevant modern medical understanding, particularly for conditions — jaundice, hyperacidity, peptic ulcer, colitis, leucorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea, infertility, and sexual disorders among them — where the college's own published vision statement argues Ayurveda offers a demonstrably effective, and in places superior, therapeutic alternative to allopathic management. Admission to the BAMS programme is conducted entirely through NEET (UG), with the 15% All India Quota seats administered by the AYUSH Admissions Central Counselling Committee (AACCC) under the Ministry of AYUSH, and the remaining 85% State Quota seats administered by the Maharashtra State Common Entrance Test Cell (State CET Cell, Directorate of Medical Education and Research) through the state's centralised Ayush CAP counselling rounds. The college's own website actively publishes current admission-cycle materials each year — including Admission Scrutiny Forms, Anti-Ragging Committee details, the current Permission Letter, and the current Fee Structure — and explicitly directs prospective candidates not to make telephone enquiries regarding the Institutional Quota, channelling all such queries through the formal published process instead. The college has self-reported a QCI 2024 quality rating of Grade 'A' with an All India Rank of 47 on its own official news ticker; prospective candidates are encouraged to verify this and all other current-cycle admission specifics, including the latest approved fee structure, directly through the official website and the Maharashtra State CET Cell's published seat matrix and cutoff documentation before finalising counselling choices. For NEET UG aspirants in Maharashtra seeking a historically significant, government-aided, single-programme BAMS college with over a century of continuous operation, direct lineage to the freedom movement and Lokmanya Tilak's own advocacy for Ayurveda, NCISM recognition (College Code AYU0144), MUHS Nashik affiliation, and an attached teaching hospital offering structured OPD, IPD, surgical, Panchakarma, and obstetric clinical training, Shri Gangadhar Shastri Gune Ayurved Mahavidyalaya, Ahmednagar represents one of the more historically distinguished — if smaller-intake — Ayurvedic medical college options in the state.