Dattatray Balwant Parasnis (Devanagari

Devanagari

Devanagari |deva]]" and "nāgarī" ), also called Nagari , is an abugida alphabet of India and Nepal...

: दत्तात्रय बळवंत पारसनीस; 1870–1926) was a historian from Maharashtra

Maharashtra

Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

, who lived during the British Raj

British Raj

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 days.

He authored many books about Indian history. Together with Charles Augustus Kincaid

Charles Augustus Kincaid

C.A. Kincaid has co-authored with Dattatray Balwant Parasnis, the "History of the Maratha People" in three volumes. He was a high court judge in colonial India and a prolific author...

, he coauthored in three volumes "History of the Maratha People".

The British government in India had conferred on him the title Rao Bahadur in honor of his scholarship.