Sultan Ala-ud-Din Khilji's conquest of Yadvas of Devagiri in fourteenth-century was assumed to be starting point of ‘Muslim Conquest of Maharashtra' which was followed by centuries of ‘Dark Age', until the rise of Maratha power in seventeenth-century. The bakhars area genre of historical narratives in prose format in Marathi composed as biographies of great personalities, they also provide descriptions of great battles and genealogies of prominent families.
This Paper concentrates on the representations of ‘Musalmans' in the above mentioned bakhar. ‘Mahikavatichi bakhar' aka ‘Mahimchi bakhar', written during fifteenth to seventeenth-century by various authors in Maharashtra.
This Paper is an attempt of re-reading the earliest known Marathi bakhar i.e.
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