{"id":61334,"date":"2021-11-16T06:12:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T06:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=61334"},"modified":"2021-11-16T06:12:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T06:12:51","slug":"noted-historian-babasaheb-purandare-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/noted-historian-babasaheb-purandare-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Noted historian Babasaheb Purandare passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Noted historian and Padma Vibhushan awardee Balwant Moreshwar Purandare, popularly known as Babasaheb Purandare, died at a Pune hospital after a brief illness, a doctor said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Purandare (99) was an authority on the Maratha warrior king\u00a0Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. Purandare was awarded Padma Vibhushan,\u00a0India&#8217;s second-highest civilian award in 2019. He was conferred with the Maharashtra Bhushan award in 2015. He had conceived and directed the theatrical history extravaganza on Shivaji Maharaj\u2019s life titled\u00a0Jaanta Raja.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noted historian and Padma Vibhushan awardee Balwant Moreshwar Purandare, popularly known as Babasaheb Purandare, died at a Pune hospital after a brief illness, a doctor said. Purandare (99) was an authority on the Maratha warrior king\u00a0Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. Purandare was awarded Padma Vibhushan,\u00a0India&#8217;s second-highest civilian award in 2019. He was conferred with the Maharashtra Bhushan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":61335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2238],"tags":[1801],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-61334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-november-2021","tag-passes-away"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61336,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61334\/revisions\/61336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61334"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=61334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}