[2][5] Balkrishna, a Kshatriya by birth, born in 1882 in Multan city, Punjab, faced numerous adversities during his childhood.

It seemed that the profession would be settled with tailoring, when favorable circumstances intervened and enabled him to join a Middle Vernacular School.

[2] He showed substantial signs of academic brilliance, topped the Vernacular Final Examination, joined Multan High School, and then moved to D.A.V.

[2] The sage author devoted presence toward several subjects, Indian, religion, culture, economics, politics, and history; it was for this purpose that he first maintained his work, a surgical fame of textual reference, History of Shivaji the Great, spread across an elongated thousand six hundred and fifty pages divided into 4 volumes.

However, he finished even the last bits of pages before his death, in spite of his ailments; the index had been published posthumously in manuscript by him.

The publication of Shivaji the Great received the support of Chhatrapati Rajaram Maharaj of Kolhapur, Sayajirao Maharaja of Baroda, Rajasaheb of Mudhol, and a few more, to whom he expressed his heartfelt gratitude.