Dipesh Chakrabarty is an Indian historian and leading scholar of postcolonial theory and subaltern studies. He is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in history at the University of Chicago,and is the recipient of the 2014 Toynbee Prize,named after Professor Arnold J. Toynbee,that recognizes social scientists for significant academic and public contributions to humanity.
Natalie Zemon Davis,was an American-Canadian historian of the early modern period. She was the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Princeton University. Her work originally focused on France,but it later broadened to include other parts of Europe,North America,and the Caribbean. For example,her book,Trickster Travels (2006),views Italy,Spain,Morocco and other parts of North Africa and West Africa through the lens of Leo Africanus's pioneering geography. Davis' books have all been translated into other languages:twenty-two for The Return of Martin Guerre. She was the second female president of the American Historical Association.
Jayant Vishnu Narlikar is an Indian astrophysicist and emeritus professor at the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA). He developed with Sir Fred Hoyle the conformal gravity theory,known as Hoyle–Narlikar theory. It synthesises Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Mach's principle. It proposes that the inertial mass of a particle is a function of the masses of all other particles,multiplied by a coupling constant,which is a function of cosmic epoch.
Chandraseniya Kayastha Prabhu (CKP) or historically and commonly known as Chandraseniya Prabhu or just Prabhu is an ethnic group mainly found in Gujarat and Maharashtra. Historically,they made equally good warriors,statesmen as well as writers. They held the posts such as Deshpande and Gadkari according to the historian,B.R. Sunthankar,produced some of the best warriors in Maharashtrian History.
Madhav Dhananjaya Gadgil is an Indian ecologist,academic,writer,columnist and the founder of the Centre for Ecological Sciences,a research forum under the aegis of the Indian Institute of Science. He is a former member of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India and the Head of the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) of 2010,popularly known as the Gadgil Commission.
Sanjay Subrahmanyam is an Indian historian who specialises in the early modern period and in connected history. He is the author of several books and publications. He holds the Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Social Sciences at UCLA which he joined in 2004.
Govind Purushottam Deshpande was a Marathi playwright and academic from Maharashtra,India.
Keshav Sitaram Thackeray,was an Indian social reformer. He campaigned against superstitions,untouchability,child marriage and dowry. He was also a prolific author.
Politics and Language is a 1979 book by Indian social scientist and researcher Y D Phadke. It explains and analyses the Samyukta Maharashtra Movement (SMM). The Movement finally resulted in the creation of separate state of Maharashtra,a state of Marathi speaking people in India.
Pisal is surname mainly found amongst the 96 Maratha clans.
Bakhar is a form of historical narrative written in Marathi prose. Bakhars are one of the earliest genres of medieval Marathi literature. More than 200 bakhars were written in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries,the most important of them chronicling the deeds of the Maratha ruler Shivaji. Bakhars are considered valuable resources depicting the Maratha view of history,but also criticized for falsification,embellishment and magnification of facts.
Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad is a literary institution situated in the Indian state of Maharashtra for the purpose of the "furtherance of Marathi language and literature". It was established in Pune in 1906. The Encyclopedia of Indian Literature considers it as Marathi's first representative literary body. The Parishad arranges annual conferences runs Maharashtra Sahitya Patrika a Marathi quarterly,provides a reference library,conducts qualifying examinations in Marathi language and literature and classes for non-Marathi speakers in Pune. It has undertaken the publishing a History of Marathi literature. It has constituted various awards in the field of literature. The Parishad according to Deshpande lead in the demand for the formation of a separate linguistic state –Maharashtra.
Sudipto Chatterjee is an Indian performance scholar actor,playwright and poet of Bengali descent.
Ramshastri is a Marathi film. It was released in 1944. The film is based on the life of Ramshastri Prabhune,the judge who had to decide on Raghoba's culpability in Narayanrao Peshwa's murder. The Leading Role of Ramshastri Prabhune was played by noted actor Gajanan Jagirdar while the role of Anandibai was played noted actress Lalita Pawar. Supporting role was played by actor Anant Marathe.
Sinhagad is a 1933 Marathi historical fact film directed by V. Shantaram. The production company was Prabhat Film Company. The story was based on Hari Narayan Apte's literary classic novel "Gad Ala Pan Sinha Gela". Apte was a famous Marathi novelist of the early twentieth century. The story's screenplay and dialogue were written by Narayan Hari Apte. The cinematographers were V. Avadhoot and Keshavrao Dhaiber. The cast included Master Vinayak,Baburao Pendharkar,Keshavrao Dhaiber,Leela Chandragiri,Shinde,Prabhavati,Budasaheb and Shankarrao Bhosle.
Vithal Sakharam Parasnis (17xx–18xx) was a Sanskrit,Vedic and Persian scholar of the early 19th century Maharashtra. Commonly known as "Aba",he is usually referred to as Aba Parasnis by sources. He was a native of the Satara district of Maharashtra.
Amita Baviskar is a sociologist and Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology &Anthropology at Ashoka University,India. Previously,she was Professor at the Sociology Unit,Institute of Economic Growth,Delhi,India. She received the 2005 Malcolm Adiseshiah Award for Distinguished Contributions to Development Studies,the 2008 VKRV Rao Prize for Social Science Research and,in 2010,was awarded the Infosys Prize for Social Sciences –Sociology in recognition of her analysis of social and environmental movements in modern India. Baviskar studies the cultural politics of environment and development in rural and urban India.
Shakakarte Chhatrapati Shri Shivaji Maharaj yanche Saptaprakaranatmak Charitra,better known as Chitnis Bakhar,is a Marathi language biography of Shivaji,the founder of the Maratha Empire. It was written by Malhar Ram Rao Chitnis,whose ancestor Balaji Avaji held the position of Chitnis under Shivaji.
Shri-Shiva-Digvijaya is a Marathi language biography of Shivaji,the founder of the Maratha Empire. The title of the text is also transliterated as Shiva-digvijay and Shiv-digvijay because of schwa deletion.
Bhausahebanchi Bakhar is a narrative of the Battle of Panipat fought in 1761 between the Maratha Empire and the Durrani Empire of Ahmad Shah Abdali. It is written in the Marathi language. According to some historians,the author of the book was anonymous,but other historians have named one Krishnaji Shamrao as the author. Given the vivid descriptions,it is believed that Shamrao may have witnessed the battle. According to K. N. Sane,the angle and favorable remarks towards some characters in the narrative is suggestive of Shamrao being an official of the Scindia.
