An important novel from this genre, authored by a brahmin, describes the battle of Koregaon in passing. Many of them dominate the historical understanding and perceptions of the Marathi-speaking middle classes even today. “During the 1970s, Maharashtra witnessed a spate of popular (a) historical Marathi novels on the bestseller lists. Historian Shraddha Kumbhojkar in a 2015 essay titled ‘Politics, caste and the remembrance of the Raj: the obelisk at Koregaon’ in an academic book said this is due to pseudomnesia or “false memories manufactured for elite consumption”. The Bhima Koregaon obelisk commemorating the British victory So why did it suddenly become a problem when Dalits decided to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Koregaon and celebrate the valour shown by the Mahars? There has never been any trouble from any quarter about this.
Similar events have happened ever since at various places to commemorate this battle and celebrate Maratha valour and the “thousands who perished for the honour of India”. The then Congress-led Haryana government had encouraged it and announced the creation of a ‘Haryana Maharashtra Maitri Dwar’, and scholarships for serious researches into Panipat. This correspondent had reported it then.Ī similar “pilgrimage” was also undertaken the following year.
In 2012, a motorcycle rally had started from Pune and came all the way to Panipat to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Third Battle of Panipat in which the Maratha confederacy was soundly defeated by an Indo-Afghan alliance on January 14, 1761.
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