Nikhil Bellarykar

My new paper, published in this year's BISM quarterly, deals with a Dutch report on Maratha invasions of Bengal. Some new stuff including a ship bridge built by the Marathas. academia.edu/104544771/A_Du…

@BaluGorade Only q is where did you learn these. I wanna learn too.

Whenever I call a plumber or electrician, they never come in one go, it takes 2-3 days. And most issues aren't even that big. So I have decided to learn the basics myself, small electrical fixes, simple plumbing, and basic repairs. Worth learning?

@MSDianAbhiii Kalki 2 is gonna have some 30 mins Mahabharata footage apparently.....

Mahabharata as a movie would go insanely hard... betrayal, war, politics, dharma vs ambition… it has EVERYTHING. And yet Indian filmmakers keep playing it safe instead of touching the greatest story ever told.

@mkhanpasha Marathi already lost it slowly over the 20th century. Seems like northies are not far behind.

It seems as if Urdu-Hindi may lose nasalized endings in the next century or so. In Devanagari, Urdu script, & and Roman, I now regularly see “nahi” or “نہی”for nahīñ, & oblique endings like लोगो को for लोगों को. koi baat nahi 😉

@cbkwgl Rana Kumbha and Telugu ? any source please.

The world works in funny ways. Let's take the case of linguistic proficiency. Tenali Raman was a scholar in Farsi. Rana Kumbha was very well versed with Telugu. The idea of Hangul is derived from a script created to read Tibetan, Mongol and Chinese. If we go by Aryan Invasion or Steppe Barbarian logic, Americas saw 143 migrations across Bering Strait. Sumerian is assumed to be an artificial pidgin of the local tongues of the era. Tower of Babel possibly referred to the fall of Nineveh. The world is known for such quirks.

@pathaksudh 6. Around 1920-22, it was mentioned in a book "Patwardhan Gharanyacha itihas" that the original copper plates which were used to block print the Bhagvadgita are in the Bharat Itihas Sanshodhak Mandal, Pune. But today they are not known. Gotta do some investigation. (n/n)

Yes it is the first printed version of Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta as is in Sanskrit, and perhaps the first printed Devanagari book too. There are two minor variations of the story behind the book (Mr Vasantrao Agashe's and Mr Kumthekar's). Would like to know more x.com/i/status/20397…

The ShrimadBhagwadGeeta was printed in Devanagari for the first time ever in our town Miraj in 1805CE

@pathaksudh 5. So the copy in Kumthekar's collection is not the only one known - just the most 'accessible' one for now. If someone does some fieldwork maybe they will find Rajapur copy and possibly others too...There is another interesting thing related to this. (3/n)

@pathaksudh 3. Both Agashe and Kumthekar have based their versions on A K Priyolkar's book "A History of the printing press in India". It's pdf is readily available on internet. 4. Priyolkar has mentioned the colophone but mentions a copy in the Vedapathashala at Rajapur (Ratnagiri). (2/n)

@pathaksudh 1. Bhagvadgita first ever Sanskrit book printed - probably true. However, Devanagari printing had already begun 2-3 years earlier in Serampore, Bengal. 2. I agree with Kumthekar's take. (1/n)

@IshiAshutosh Malang gad as well. As per the document(s) discovered by the researcher Raj Memane.

The Marathas had a pipe system in majority of their forts. You can still see some of their relics at the capital Raigad.

@0007ferrero Traditional Akharas always have it.

In many North Indian gyms, you will find that all gyms owned by Hindus have an idol of Shri Hanuman ji. And many of them have recently started playing only Hanuman and Bhairav related workout music. It's slowly in some sense turning into a neo-martial ritual. Its wonderful!

@Anmol_299 Partly true. पण यामागे कारण आहे. मारुती मंदिर वगैरे प्रचलित असताना सगळ्यांनी धर्म म्हणजे मागास प्रतिगामी जातीयवादी वगैरे टोचून टोचून बोलून मराठी सांस्कृतिक पॅकेज लोकांना दूर केले, मग शेवटी उत्तरेचे सांस्कृतिक पॅकेज लोकांनी अंगीकारल्यावर जाग आली.....

One thing I noticed is my Aaji always says ' मारुतीच्या मंदिराला गेला का ' It's always मारुती rarely हनुमान, whereas our generation almost always says हनुमान Maybe next generation will fully forget मारुती Maybe I'm overthinking

@ShantihMuse @arya_amsha Thanks

@Bellarykar @arya_amsha Fatawa Alamgiri was originally compiled in Arabic and translated into Persian.. it is also a reference for Hanafis in Arab countres..also known as Fatawa Hindiyyah

Fun fact - the son of the inventor of "Banglar Rasgolla" saw that the Marwaris in Kolkata aren't relishing Rasgulla. So he made Rasmalai.

Didn't know that Bari Chaupar was in the fringes of Jaipur !

@suchitrav Didn't know that Bari Chaupar was in the fringes of Jaipur !

“Tamegh Tanwar, a Dalit professor of history and conservation at the University of Rajasthan who has spent over two decades studying the city, explained that the Old City’s vegetarian character did not emerge organically; it was engineered. He presented the dichotomy of Muslim vendors and those from non-Brahminical castes selling meat openly at its fringes, while an entirely different code operates within.” The Invisible Caste Lines Of Jaipur's Food Scene by Roopashi Semalty for @project_polis thepolisproject.com/read/jaipur-fo…

@RRP_datta बाकी महाराजांची भूमिका करावी ती मांडरे यांनीच. इतर कुणीही, मग ते मांडलेकर केळकर किंवा देशमुख - सगळे पानी कम आहेत मांडरे यांच्यापेक्षा.

राजा शिवाजी या मध्ये एकेरी काय आहे?

@RRP_datta भालजी पेंढारकरांच्या छत्रपती शिवाजी या पिक्चरमध्ये शेवटी राज्याभिषेकाचा प्रसंग दाखवलाय त्यावेळच्या गाण्याचे बोल आहेत "युगनिर्माता महाराष्ट्राचा, आज शिवाजी राजा झाला, राजा झाला". हे एकेरी दुहेरीत अडकलेले मूर्ख लोक याला काय म्हणणार ?

@arya_amsha Court language of Islamic powers in India was Persian. Mughal, Delhi sultanates, Deccan sultanates, and all other sultanates had Persian as their court language. As a result, Persian sources abound for every such dynasty. Plus there are Sufis. You simply cannot ignore Persian.