Dattatray Balwant Parasnis (1870–1926) was a historian from
Maharashtra
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, India, who lived during the
British Raj
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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
Deshastha Brahmin is a Hindu Brahmin subcaste mainly from the Indian state of Maharashtra and northern area of the state of Karnataka. Other than these states, according to authors K. S. Singh, Gregory Naik and Pran Nath Chopra, Deshastha Br ...
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 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.
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.
In 1918-1925, along with
Charles Augustus Kincaid
C.A. Kincaid CVO (1870–1954) co-authored with Dattatray Balwant Parasnis, the ''History of the Maratha People'' in three volumes. He was a high court judge in colonial India and a prolific author. He was educated at Sherborne.
His son, Dennis K ...
, he co-authored in three volumes, ''A History of the Maratha people''.
His ''Poona in Bygone Times'' was published in 1921.
Honours
*In 1913, he was honoured with the title ''Rao Bahadur'' in recognition of his scholarship by the British Government.
Biography and Work
* On Nov 27, 2022, which was his 152th birthday, a book titled " Rao bahadur D.B.Parasnis - Charitra va Karya " written by Dr. Surendra Shrikrishna Parasnis was published.
[https://www.loksatta.com/lokrang/ravbhadur-dattatray-parasnis-world-class-maharashtrian-historian-zws-70-3297938/]
References
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Historians of India
1870 births
1926 deaths
Marathi-language writers
Marathi people
Rai Bahadurs