Remembering Vishvanath Kashinath Rajwade: The Maharashtra Historian Extraordinaire

The first part of a series profiling the iconic scholar of Maharashtra history, Vishvanath Kashinath Rajwade whose service to scholarship and learning is a universe by itself.

IF BAL THACKERAY’S MAHARASHTRIAN PRIDE was of a virulent and violent sort, there was an infinitely more refined and cultured pride that coursed in that geography exactly one generation prior to him. It was built with the bricks of deep study, the virtue of purpose, and pure living. All of these were the defining traits of the modern Indian Renaissance t…