“When the Indore Babudom’s Negligence Burnt the Entire Holkar Archives”, The Dharma Dispatch, April 28, 2026

“MOST FORTUNATELY for Indian history, D. B. Parasnis stepped into the breach. He was an ordinary middle class man, without wealth, without official power and patronage, without social influence. But his heart and brain were ceaselessly devoted to saving these raw materials of history, and ultimately he did save most of them with infinite planning, patience, and versatility in the choice of means.

This rich and unrivalled collection not merely of written records, but also of other valuable relics of the past, made Parasnis’s house at Satara truly the Mecca of the students of Maratha history.History

The greatest disappointment of Parasnis’s life was the burning of the Holkar records at Indore; he was for no fault of his own just too late by a week to see them….,.”

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