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Author, 'Battles of the Maratha Empire' ' and 'Lachit - The Indomitable' (formerly Brahmaputra) Sometimes a sailor too.

Sep 11, 2021, 10 tweets

People sharing actual letters and sources are WhatsApp historians.

One who made 4 glaring factual errors in two paragraphs is competent to handle.

Thank you.

Even after mistakes have been pointed out, it gets published in Frontline !!

😳🤣🤣

An 8 year old De Boigne ...

Time traveller...

Source for above two

Ref : Aligarh Gazetteer , 1909

Now I am going to forward all of the above on WhatsApp ....

Criticism to my counters coming from usual Mughal mansabdars.. 🤣🤣🤣

Not exactly about that article, but here we can see " Maratha Empire " mentioned in the same book by Col Malleson

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