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About The Book : At the desire of many interested friends, author have endeavoured to put together in this book all available information about the charming hills of Mahabaleshwar, and it is hoped that it will be found equally interesting and useful by all those who visit this place and wish to know something of its history and climate. They form one of the spurs of the great Sahyadri range, which is well-known as the Western Ghauts. These rolling spurs, crowned by flat-topped summits, command magnificent views of deep valleys, and possess natural advantages surpassed by few.The principal Sanatorium of the Bombay Presidency is established on the summits of these hills, with a general elevation of 4,500 feet above sea-level, rising at its highest point, the Sindola Hill, to 4,700 feet. It is reached from Bombay by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway to Poona, and thence by the Madras and S. M. Railway to Wathar Station. About The Author : Rao Bahadur D.B. Parasnis (1870–1926) was a historian from Maharashtra, India, who lived during the British Raj days. Parasnis had been granted a lifelong pension of two hundred rupees a month by the Government of Bombay. Parasnis was born on 27 November 1870 in a traditional middle-class Deshastha Brahmin family. Parasnis authored biographies of Bramhendra Swami, Rani's Laxmi Bai of Jhansi and Baija Bai of Gwalior and works on the Mahrattas and the Nawabs of Oudh. Parasnis also published collections of letters in his two monthly magazines, the Bharatavarsha and the Ithihasa Sangraha, of which the first covered two years and the second seven years from August 1907. In 1894, Parasnis published an authoritative biography of Maharani Jhansi Lakshmibai, Maharani Laxmibaisaheb Yanche Charitra. His book was based on interviews with Dhanodar Rao, adopted son of Rani Lakshmibai, who was still alive then. In 1918-1925, along with Charles Augustus Kincaid, he co-authored in three volumes, A History of the Maratha people. His Poona in Bygone Times was published in 1921.