He has been portrayed as a professor of history. He is quite a passionate researcher and strong personality. He experiences a unique phenomenon. He meets with an accident and goes into a coma; during the time he is in coma, his consciousness experiences an experience of British India in which he sees a different Bombay. He also finds history to be changed in which India had never ever become slave to the British. He also finds that Marathas had defeated the troops of Abdali at Panipat. Later on Professor Rajendra Deshpande tries to give scientific explanation to this strange experience; but Gangadar Pant is not thoroughly convinced as many questions remain unanswered.