Panipat Vishwas Patil May 2026

The novel begins with the Maratha expansion into North India, their meteoric rise, and the growing alarm of Muslim powers. It then traces the ill-fated Dilli Darbar (the march to Delhi), the strategic blunders, the crucial failure to secure alliances (notably with the Jats, Sikhs, and Rajputs), and the agonizingly slow, supply-line-stretched advance toward Panipat.

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At its heart, Panipat chronicles the clash of two colossal armies: the fast-marching, agile Maratha forces under the command of Sadashivrao Bhau and the disciplined, artillery-heavy army of Ahmad Shah Abdali, the Durrani emperor of Afghanistan. However, Patil’s narrative goes far beyond the battlefield. He meticulously reconstructs the political landscape of 18th-century India—a world of crumbling Mughal authority, rising regional powers, and the complex, often self-destructive, factionalism within the Maratha Empire itself. The novel begins with the Maratha expansion into