पानीपत १७६१ (मराठा साम्राज्य एवं पानीपत महायुद्ध इतिहास)

PREFATORY NOTE THE present volume initiates the Monograph Series of the Deccan College Research Institute, and it is no coincidence that the first volume in that series should deal with the Third Battle of Panipat The history of this Institute is closely connected with that of the Peshwas whose religious benefac tions were directed by Mountstuart Elphinstone, after the Battle of Kirkee towards the promotion of Education among the people and in consequence this Institute was founded in 1821, (on Saturday, 6th October) as the Poona Sanskrit College Through the three stages of Poona College (1851) and Deccan College (1868) and the Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute (1939) the Institute maintains the continuity of these benefactions and the present year is significantly the 125th year after the original founda tion when besides this Monograph Series, two others, namely, the Dis sertation Series and the Handbook Series are inaugurated It is to be hoped that this long tradition of enlightened scholarship towards which both Indians and Europeans, particularly Englishmen, have so largely contributed, will be maintained rigorously in the future to heighten the common achievement The thanks of the Publication Committee in the present case are chiefly due to Mr R P PATWARDHAN, M A (Oxon), I E S, Director of Public Instruction, Bombay Province, and Mr D R GADGIL, M A, M Litt (Cantab) Director of the Gokhale Institute of Economics and Politics, Poona, for helpful criticism S M K 21st March. 1946