A History of the Mahrattas v1.c3.1

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A *History of the Mahrattas*, by James Grant Duff, despite its value to the student of Indian history, has for many years been difficult to procure, and the reprints of the original edition are also scarce. Only in the Calcutta edition of 1912 has any attempt been made at annotation of the text, and the notes which appear as appendices to the three volumes of that edition are meagre and inchoate. In preparing the footnotes to the present edition, I have endeavoured to confine them strictly to the illumination of Grant Duff’s text, and to the record of new facts or circumstances which have become known since he wrote. With the same object I have included in the Introduction a note on the ‘Origin of the Marāthās,’ and a brief account of Marāthī literature, as neither of these subjects is dealt with by the author, and both are inseparably connected with the history of Mahārāshtra. The Introduction also includes a brief memoir of the author, a note on his work, and an alphabetical list of the authorities consulted in the preparation of the footnotes.