A History of the Mahrattas v1.c5.s2.18

v1.c5.s2.18

In a paper read before the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society on January 19, 1905,² Rao Bahādur D. B. Parasnis remarks that Pratāp Singh, the Rājā of Sātāra, had Grant Duff’s work translated into Marāthī, but that the translation had never been printed. He adds that he had obtained a copy of the translation, which he intended to present to the Society. The Rājā had been urged to make the translation by General Briggs, who wrote to him as follows on August 20, 1827 :