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Tushar Rawat
11th A 45
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The Adventure chapter – 7

The lesson Adventure of class 11th revolves around a particular historic event, Gangadharpnt Gaitonde. It
shows how Professor Gaitonde wonders about the fate of India if the Marathas had not been allowed any relief
to stay in Bombay by the EIC. he believes that this step had laid an impact on them. He went to the Hornby
road and noticed that the shops were different. He entered the Forbes building and inquired about Mr. Vinay
Gaitonde but as checked by the receptionist, no such man had ever worked there. He went to the Town Hall and
sat in the reading room. He took five books related to the history and decided to go through them one by one
and check how the facts had changed. He started investigating from the period of Asoka to the third battle of
Panipat

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 About
Author
Jayant Narlikar
• Jayant Narlikar wrote "The Adventure." In this story, two
different theories are attempted to be explained through an
imaginary set of events that would have happened in the life of
a history professor if a battle more than 200 years ago had been
different.

• Facts and Speculations in Cosmology, with G. Burbridge,

Cambridge University Press 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-13424-8
• Current Issues in Cosmology, 2006
• A Different Approach to Cosmology: From a Static Universe
through the Big Bang towards Reality, 2005
• Fred Hoyle's Universe, 2003
• Scientific Edge: The Indian Scientist from Vedic to Modern
Times, 2003

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About
• The chapter ‘The Adventure’ is a story about
Professor Gangadharpant Gaitonde who is strangely
in a different world. He knows it is Pune but the
facts are different from what he believes. He decided

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to go to Bombay via train ‘Jijamata Express’. When
he reached Bombay, things were different. When he
decides to investigate the history, he finds some
surprising facts. The East India Company was still
ruling and the Battle of Panipat had been won by
Marathas. It was different from what he knew and
had studied. The East India Company was taken
aback after events of 1857 and the Battle of Panipat
had been won by Mughals

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 Summary Of Chapter
Jayant Narlikar wrote The Adventure in a very informative and interesting form. He has given the student the perfect combination of history and science. We
see that a historian, Professor Gaitonde somehow time-travels into the past. Upon going in the past, he experiences something which was never there before. He
finds himself in the city of Mumbai that he has never witnessed.

The Mumbai he is presently in is very different from it actually is. He gets down at the Victoria Terminus Station where he finds it to be very clean,
surprisingly. The coaches of the train read out ‘Greater Bombay Metropolitan Railway’. Moreover, the staffs were of Anglo-Indians and a few British officers.

Upon getting off the station, Gaitonde saw the East India Company Headquarters. Similarly, there were buildings of mainly British brands and British banks. In
fact, his son’s workplace of Forbes was not even there. Thus, in order to solve the riddle, he went to the Library and read about the battle of Panipat. Upon
reading, he finds out the details to be different from actually happened. In fact, he also reads that the British rule never made it to India which surprised him.

After the visit to the library, he visited the Azad Maidan and got into a fight over there with the audience. After being thrown off stage, Gaitonde came out of
his time-travel experience and was lying unconscious in Azad Maidan. Thus, he visits Professor Deshpande to get an explanation. Upon his visit, he learns
about reality being different from through our senses. Thus, the reality we live in can have many manifestations or dimensions.

So, physicists believe that there are many worlds existing other than the ones we see through our senses. Moreover, he explains that Gaitonde transitioned into
another world as he was presently in a coma due to an accident. Similarly, as the last thing he was thinking about was the battle of Panipat, he went to that era
only and what he saw was all in his mind.

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Thank You!