[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [A History of the Mahrattas](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.grantduff-1826) › v1.c19.153 # A History of the Mahrattas v1.c19.153 A History of the Mahrattas v1.c19.153 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c19.153](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.grantduff-1826.v1.c19.153) All the principal Mahratta officers had, as a further means of preserving intercourse and union, particular claims assigned to them on portions of revenue, or on whole villages, in the districts of each other. The greatest Mahratta commanders, or their principal Bramin agents, were eager to possess their native village; but although vested with the control, they were proud to acknowledge themselves of the family of the Patell or Koolkurnee; and if heirs to a miras field, they would sooner have lost wealth and rank than been dispossessed of such wutun or inheritance. Yet, on obtaining the absolute sovereignty, they never assumed an authority in the interior village concerns, beyond the rights and privileges acquired by birth or purchase, according to the invariable rules of the country. - [Previous: v1.c19.152](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.grantduff-1826.v1.c19.152) - [Next: v1.c19.154](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.grantduff-1826.v1.c19.154) - [Up: v1.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.grantduff-1826.v1.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.grantduff-1826.v1.c19.153](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.grantduff-1826.v1.c19.153) · Pramāṇa