Vikrant Pande started translating from the Marathi with Ranjit Desai’s classic novel Raja Ravi Varma, the story of India’s most celebrated painter. He has since translated Milind Bokil’s Shala, N.S. Inamdar’s Rau: The Great Love Story of Bajirao Mastani and Shahenshah: The Life of Aurangzeb. His most recent translation is Ranjit Desai’s Shivaji, The Great Maratha, a bestseller in Marathi. A graduate of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Vikrant worked in the corporate sector for twenty-five years before shifting to the field of education where he currently is a vice-chancellor with TeamLease Skills University, Vadodara.
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First published in India in 2011 by
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Copyright for the original text in Marathi © Mrs Swati Rajan Chandorkar 2018
English translation copyright © Vikrant Pande 2018
P-ISBN: 978-93-5277-620-7
Epub Edition © January 2018 ISBN: 978-93-5277-621-4
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