Dattatray Balwant Parasnis


Dattatray Balwant Parasnis 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.

Early life

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

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.

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.

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