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