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Govind Sakharam Sardesai

December 02, 2023

Rao Bahadur Govind Sakharam Sardesai (17 May 1865 – 29 November 1959), popularly known as Riyasatkar Sardesai, was a historian from Bombay Presidency, India.

Rao Bahadur, Riyasatkar

Govind Sakharam Sardesai
Sardesai in 1938
Native name
गोविंद सखाराम सरदेसाई
Born17 May 1865
Govil, Ratnagiri District, Maharashtra
Died29 November 1959 (aged 94)
Kamshet, Pune, Maharshtra
OccupationHistorian, writer
Nationality•  British India (1865-1947)
•  India (1947-1959)
Notable awardsRao Bahadur (1937)
Padma Bhushan (1957)
Signature

Through his Riyasats written in Marathi, Sardesai presented an account of over 1,000 years of the Indian history until 1848. He also wrote the three-volume New History of Marathas in English.

Sardesai's work was recognised with a Padma Bhushan award from the Government of India in 1957.[1]

Biography edit

Sardesai was born in a middle-class Brahmin family in the village of Gowil in Ratnagiri District. He received his high school education in Ratnagiri, and college education in Pune and Mumbai. Then he joined the service of the princely state of Baroda in 1889. Shortly thereafter, Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III appointed him as his personal secretary, and subsequently as a tutor of the princes.

With encouragement from the Maharaja and availing himself of access to the large collection of books and historical papers in the royal library, Sardesai compiled voluminous historical data and wrote several books.

He often accompanied the Maharaja during the latter's trips to the UK, US, and Europe; this helped Sardesai to broaden his outlook of history.

Sardesai wrote eight volumes of Marathi Riyasat, three volumes of Musalmani Riyasat, and two volumes of British Riyasat.

 
Sardesai, with signature, about 1938

Historian Tryambak Shankar Shejwalkar had worked as his assistant in the above endeavour. Shejwalkar had written the preface to one of his volumes on Peshwas; Sardesai asked him to write the preface because Shejwalkar held some contrary historical views.

After retiring from service at Baroda state in 1925, Sardesai settled in the village of Kamshet near Pune. In accord with a suggestion from Jadunath Sarkar, the government of Bombay asked Sardesai to take up the work of editing and publishing Peshwa daftar. He examined almost 35,000 documents, comprising 27,332 in Modi Marathi; 7,482 in English; 129 in Gujarati; and 29 in Persian. Subsequently, he published 45 volumes of Peshwa daftar consisting of 7,801 pages and covering 8,650 documents.

Later, jointly with Sarkar, Sardesai edited and published Poona Residency Correspondence consisting of 7,193 pages and covering 4,159 letters. With the help of some newly discovered sources, he wrote at his age 80, The New History of Marathas.

Sardesai died at Kamshet on 29 November 1959 at the age of 94.

Works edit

Sardasai wrote all of his works in Marathi except for the last three in the following list, which he had written in English.

  • Musalmani Riyasat
  • Marathi Riyasat
  • British Riyasat
  • Peshwe Daftar
  • Aitihasik Wanshawali
  • Aitihasik Gharani
  • Aitihasik Patrawyawahar
  • Aitihasik Patrabodh
  • Mahadaji Shinde Yanchi Patre
  • Anupuran
  • Paramanand Kawyam
  • Sardesai Gharanyacha Itihas
  • Shyamkantachi Patre
  • Poona Residency Correspondence
  • Main Currents of Maratha History
  • The New History of Marathas

Honours edit

References edit

  1. ^ (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  • Biography in Marathi Riyasat Volume I
  • Autobiography Majhi Sansaryatra
  • Shejwalkar Lekh Sangraha by Tryambak Shankar Shejwalkar
  • Riyasatkar Sardesai by Prof. S. S. Puranik
  • Riyasatkar by Prof. S. S. Puranik
  • Rishitarpan by Prof. S. S. Puranik (2014) (ऋषितर्पण - प्रा. श. श्री. पुराणिक)

See also edit

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