A History of the Mahrattas v1.c3.2

v1.c3.2

In regard to the spelling of proper-names and place-names I have decided to leave Grant Duff’s spelling in the text unaltered, partly because in the majority of cases it approximates very closely to the sound of the words as pronounced in the vernacular, and partly because the wholesale transformation of his spelling according to the modern system seems to me to destroy to some degree the original character of his work. My plan throughout has been, in all footnotes to give the modern spelling, as followed in the latest edition of the *Imperial Gazetteer of India*, with Grant Duff’s spelling in parentheses immediately after it, and in the Index either to give his spelling with the modern spelling in parentheses beside it, or in cases of marked difference to give both spellings with a cross-reference against Grant Duff’s to the modern form of the word. Thus the footnote on ‘Oolpar’