Dattatray Balwant Parasnis

Dattatray Balwant Parasnis
Rao Bahadur
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)
Nationality Indian
Occupation Historian
Children Amritrao Dattatray Parasnis[1]

Dattatray Balwant Parasnis (Devanagari: दत्तात्रय बळवंत पारसनीस; 1870–1926) was a historian from Maharashtra, India, who lived during the British Raj days.

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 November 27, 1870 in a traditional middle-class Deshastha Brahmin family.He was educated in satara high school, Satara. Possessed of a strong literary aptitude, he read extensively and even edited a monthly magazine during his school days.[3] His father was an employee in the revenue department under British Government.They were known as parasnis because of the family occupation of translators and interpreters of Persian documents.[4]

Work

Rao Bahadur Dattatraya Balwant Parasnis is indefatigable worker in the field of historical research. He is well known to the public as the author of standard biographies of Bramhendra Swami, Rani's Laxmi Bai of Jhansi and Baija Bai of Gwalior and authoritative works on the chivalrous deeds of the Mahrattas, on the Nawabs of oudh,the navy to the Mahrattas in which he has used in exhaustible historical material which has been able to unearth by the labours of the lifetime. Parasnis also published the collections of letters in his two monthly magazines - the Bharatavarsha and the Ithihasa Sangraha, of which the first had the short career of two year and the second of seven year from the August 1907.

Maharani Laxmibaisaheb Yanche Charitra

In 1894,Dattatrey Balwant 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.[5]

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.[6]

Honours

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

References

  1. ↑ Michael D. Gordin; Helen Tilley; Gyan Prakash. 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. 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. ↑ Mãrg, Volume 34, Issues 1-2. Marg Publications. p. 91.
  5. ↑ Gautham Gupta. 1857 The Uprising. Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. p. PT152. ISBN 9788123022994. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  6. ↑ Dattatray Balwant Parasnis; Charles Augustus Kincaid (1918–1925). A history of the Maratha people. Oxford University press.
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