What is "bakhar"

Bakhar is a form of historical narrative written in Marathi prose. Bakhars are one of the earliest genres of medieval Marathi literature. More than 200 bakhars were written in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, the most important of them chronicling the deeds of the Maratha ruler Shivaji. Bakhars are considered valuable resources depicting the Maratha view of history, but also criticised for falsification, embellishment and magnification of facts.

Bakhar may refer to

• Bakhar, a form of Marathi-language historical narrative written from medieval India
• Ilan Bakhar (b. 1975), a retired Israeli football player
• Barak Bakhar (b. 1979), an Israeli football player
• Bhakkar District or its principal city Bhakkar, located in Punjab, Pakistan; known as Bakhar in the local Seraiki language
• Bakhar Bar, a town in Punjab, Pakistan