Dattatray Balwant Parasnis

Dattatray Balwant Parasnis (1870–1926) was a historian from Maharashtra, India, who lived during the British Raj days.

Rao Bahadur

Dattatray Balwant Parasnis
Born(1870-11-27)27 November 1870
Satara, Bombay Presidency (now part of Maharashtra)
Died(1926-03-31)31 March 1926
Poona, Bombay Presidency (now part of Maharashtra)
NationalityIndian
OccupationHistorian
ChildrenAmritrao Dattatray Parasnis[1]

Parasnis had been granted a lifelong pension of two hundred rupees a month by the Government of Bombay.[2]

Early life

Parasnis was born on 27 November 1870 in a traditional middle-class Deshastha Brahmin family.[3]

Work

Parasnis authored biographies of Bramhendra Swami, Rani's Laxmi Bai of Jhansi and Baija Bai of Gwalior and works on the Mahrattas and the Nawabs of Oudh.

Parasnis also published the collections of letters in his two monthly magazines - the Bharatavarsha and the Ithihasa Sangraha, of which the first was published for two years and the second for seven years from August 1907.

Maharani Laxmibaisaheb Yanche Charitra

In 1894, Parasnis published an authoritative biography of Maharani Jhansi Lakshmibai, Maharani Laxmibaisaheb Yanche Charitra.Parasnis book was based on the interviews with Dhanodar Rao adopted son of Rani Lakshmibai who was still alive then.[4]

A history of the Maratha people

In 1918-1925, along with Charles Augustus Kincaid, he co-authored in three volumes, A History of the Maratha people.[5]

Honours
  • In 1913, he was honoured with the title Rao Bahadur in recognition of his scholarship by the British Government.[6]

References
  1. Michael D. Gordin; Helen Tilley; Gyan Prakash (23 August 2010). Utopia/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility. Princeton University Press. p. 84. ISBN 9781400834952. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
  2. Michael D. Gordin; Helen Tilley; Gyan Prakash (23 August 2010). Utopia/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility. Princeton University Press. p. 84. ISBN 9781400834952. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
  3. Donald W. Attwood; Milton Israel; Narendra K. Wagle (1988). City, countryside and society in Maharashtra. University of Toronto, Centre for South Asian Studies. p. 46. ISBN 9780969290728.
  4. Gautham Gupta. 1857 The Uprising. Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. p. PT152. ISBN 9788123022994. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  5. Dattatray Balwant Parasnis; Charles Augustus Kincaid (1918–1925). A history of the Maratha people. Oxford University press.
  6. Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1955). House of Shivaji: Studies and Documents on Maratha History, Royal Period. They had conferred on him the title of Rao Bahadur in 1913
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