Panipat

The Most horrific Panipat battle has dazzled generations of historians. Its tactics, ingenious battle formations and fortifications, its reputation as the supreme war of wits has kept the third battle of Panipat alive in public memory. But a war is not only glory and splendour. It is fought by flesh-and-blood people with feelings and motivations big and small, who come alive in Vishwas Patil’s Panipat. His ability to weave gargantuan research into effortless storytelling truly shines through in this tale.

Vishwas Patil is one of the most acclaimed Marathi writers today. He has written iconic novelslike Mahanayak, Chandramukhi, Pangira, Zadazadati, Panipat, Sambhaji, Nagkeshar and Lust for Lalbaug. He has received the Priyadarshini National Award, the Vikhe Patil Award and the Sahitya Akademi Award for Zadazadati and the Gadkari Award for Mahanayak. Panipat has received thirty-eight awards since its publication in 1988.

About the translator 

Nadeem Khan has been a teacher of English since 1973. He retired as Head, Department of Languages, Shivaji Science College, Amravati in 2010. In 2011, he became the founding director of the Western Regional Centre of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication run by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, at which post he remained till 2018. He is currently adviser on English language learning to the Shiksha Mandal, Wardha, an education society founded by Jamnalal Bajaj.

Nadeem Khan has used his wide and eclectic reading to bring body and texture to the translations he has been doing for the past ten years. Other than translating three other novels of Vishwas Patil, he has also brought into English the novels of the young Marathi writer Avadhoot Dongare, as also the works of celebrated writers like Bhau Padhye.