Bakhar

For other uses, see Bakhar (disambiguation).

Bakhar is a form of historical narrative written in Marathi prose. Bakhars are one of the earliest genres of medieval Marathi literature.[1] More than 200 bakhars were written in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, the most important of them chronicling the deeds of the Maratha ruler Shivaji.[citation needed] Bakhars are considered valuable resources depicting the Maratha view of history, but also criticized for falsification, exaggeration, embellishment and magnification of facts.[2]

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