Investigation into the articulations between formations of caste and cities in India has only recently gained momentum in research on urban India. Seeking to contribute to this research, this paper close reads Puneri, an anthology authored by noted Marathi litterateur S.J. Joshi, published in 1978. Written as reminiscences about the public culture of the city of Pune in the early to mid twentieth century, Puneri, I argue, represents a discursive attempt at caste-based appropriation of the city’s identity, whereby the remembered city is produced as a Brahman city, erasing the presence and contribution of marginalised caste groups to the city’s public life. I illustrate how this caste-marked city emerges via the distinct temporal and spatial boundaries that Joshi narrates in his essays, attempting to mask the deep contestations of the city spaces along caste lines in early twentieth century Pune.