Fall of the Mughal Empire v2.c27.s25.6

v2.c27.s25.6

Among these, the historian has a special reason for lamenting the death of Antāji, which has robbed posterity of a most brilliant account of the battle of Pānipat from the Maratha side. He has left behind him the most graphic and detailed despatches on his other campaigns and reports of Delhi Court affairs. He was, in fact, a journalist before his time, and possessed the modern pressman's facile pen, eye for the picturesque, descriptive power, and—we must mournfully add,—disregard of truth for producing effect or glorifying himself.