Dattatray Balwant Parasnis

Rao Bahadur
Dattatray Balwant Parasnis
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 , Pandurang Dattatray Parasnis, Shrikrishna Dattatray Parasnis, Raghunath Dattatray Parasnis, Govind Dattatray Parasnis, Krishnabai Kumathekar, Champutai Raghunath Deshapande [1]

Dattatray Balwant Parasnis (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 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.[citation needed]

Parasnis also published collections of letters in his two monthly magazines, the Bharatavarsha and the Ithihasa Sangraha, of which the first covered two years and the second seven years from August 1907.[citation needed]

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

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

His Poona in Bygone Times was published in 1921.[6]

Honours

  • In 1913, he was honoured with the title Rao Bahadur in recognition of his scholarship by the British Government.[7]

Biography and Work

  • On Nov 27, 2022, which was his 152nd birthday, a book titled " Rao bahadur D.B.Parasnis - Charitra va Karya " written by Dr. Surendra Shrikrishna Parasnis was published.[8]

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. ^ Parasnis, Dattatray Balwant (1921). Poona in Bygone Days. Bombay: The Times Press – via Internet Archive.
  7. ^ 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
  8. ^ "Ravbhadur dattatray parasnis world class maharashtrian historian ZWS 70". 27 November 2022.