The book can be considered as a historical fiction, in a sense that when researching if the author found some gaps he has to fill it with most logical imagination and if more than one different perspectives of the same incidents are found, he has to chose the one he thinks the most logical. As the original book is in Marathi, we read the English translation of the same, done by Nadeem Khan. It is worth to note that over 250000 copies of the book are sold in Indian languages, and counting. It is not only respected as a well-researched account of the war and more importantly the chain of incidents that resulted into the consequences happened but also is one of the most commercially successful novel/book in an Indian language. He had explored a lot of reference books and material available, and came up with the book – Panipat. Vishvash Patil, a Marathi author has decided to explore it to find out the most reliable account of the incidents and document it as a book. As the Marathas lost the war, many authors and historians have avoided exploring it. The war of Panipat is considered as one of most brutal wars fought in a last few hundred years on Indian soil. Of course, it is neither to blame someone or shift a blame from someone, but, it is to view the incidents as they happened. Of course, till we got freedom/independence in 1947, the history was written by foreigners, but, since the independence it is our responsibility to explore it in as much “absolute” perspective as much possible. We see a lot of biased and one-sided narrative regarding various historical incidents, so when some scholars and researchers decide to explore them as much neutral or from a different perspective his/her job becomes more challenging. It is thus rightly said, “till the tiger learns to write, hunter will be the hero of the story”. Often, even the reference material is found written from the perspective of the author and it is natural and obvious to find it influenced by the political scenario/situation at the time of writing it.

Every historical account written after many years of the actual series of incidents happen relies highly on the research material available.

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