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| honorific-prefix =[[Parasnis]]<br />
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| native_name = निरंजन माधव<br />
| native_name_lang =Marathi<br />
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| monarch = [[Chhatrapati Shahu]]<br />
| predecessor = Bapu<br />
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| birth_place = [[Satara (city)|Satara]], [[Maratha Empire]] (present-day [[Maharashtra]], [[India]])<br />
| birth_date = 1703{{Sfn|Gokhale|1988|p=198}}<br />
| death_date = 1790{{Sfn|Gokhale|1988|p=198}}<br />
| death_place = [[Pune]], [[Maratha Empire]] (present-day [[Maharashtra]], [[India]])<br />
|residence = [[Parasnis Wada]], [[Poona]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Diplomats of Maratha Empire|url=https://issuu.com/iravatinath/docs/4th_chapter|author=iravatinath|page=36}}</ref><br />
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| term_start = 1735{{Sfn|Sarkar|1953|p=viii to x}}<br />
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'''Niranjan Madhav''' also known as '''Niranjan Madhav Parasnis''' (1703-1790) was a diplomat and poet, who worked as [[Parasnis]] under Peshwa [[Bajirao I]].{{Sfn|Gokhale|1988|p=198}} He was sent on diplomatic assignments to [[Karnataka]] and [[Tamil Nadu]] by [[Bajirao I]] and [[Balaji Bajirao]].{{Sfn|Gokhale|1988|p=198}}<br />
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In 1735, Niranjan Madhav was appointed as the [[Parasnis]] by Peshwa [[Bajirao I]].{{Sfn|Sarkar|1953|p=viii to x}}<br />
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Madhav is remembered for his splendid contribution to the [[Maratha Empire]] by way of loyalty, and diplomacy.<br />
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==Early life ==<br />
According to ''Akbharats and the Poona Jagirdar Parasnis collections of Persian despatches from Delhi'', Niranjan Madhav was born in 1703 in a prominent [[Deshastha Brahmin|Deshastha Rigvedi Brahmin]] of [[Vishvamitra]] gotra in [[Satara (city)|Satara]], [[Maratha Empire]] (present-day [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]).<ref>{{cite book|title=Delhi affairs (1761-1788): (News-letters from Parasnis collection)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=91huAAAAMAAJ|publisher=Director of Archives, Government of Bombay|author=Sir Jadunath Sarkar|year = 1953|page=viii to x}}</ref><br />
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==Works==<br />
Niranjan Madhav was initiated into the mysteries of the spiritual lore and wrote five works, finishing some at [[Poona]] and some others at [[Srirangapattana]]. He unlocked a temple at [[Chennakeshava Temple, Belur|Belur Chenna Keshava]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Journal of the Bihar Research Society, Volume 41|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XmbGAAAAMAAJ|year=1955|publisher=Bihar Research Society|page=207}}</ref><br />
Niranjan Madhav composed ''Subhadra Swayamvara Champu''. This akhyana contains prose and poetry, which is a significant contribution to Marathi akhyana.This is a Swayamvar Kavya describing the marriage between [[Arjuna]] and [[Subhadra]].{{Sfn|Iqbal|2009|p=13}}<br />
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In 1760, Niranjan Madhav composed ''Jnaneshwar Vijay'', on life of [[Dnyaneshwar]].It is based on the work of Namdev and is more a laudatory poem than a biography.{{Sfn|Callewaert|1994|p=162}}<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
*{{cite book|title=Poona in the eighteenth century: an urban history|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=THR5AAAAIAAJ|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1988|first=Balkrishna Govind|last=Gokhale|isbn = 9780195621372}}<br />
*{{cite book|title=Islamic Financial Management, Volume 1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nrR9D_ydGwoC|publisher=Global Vision Publishing House|first=Dr. Jaquir|last=Iqbal|year=2009|isbn = 9788182202214}}<br />
*{{cite book|title=According to Tradition: Hagiographical Writing in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GrMwdEqHLzEC|first=Winand M. |last=Callewaert|publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag|year=1994|isbn = 9783447035248}}<br />
*{{cite book|title=Delhi affairs (1761-1788): (News-letters from Parasnis collection)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=91huAAAAMAAJ|year=1953|publisher=Director of Archives, Government of Bombay|first=Sir Jadunath|last=Sarkar}}<br />
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