A History of the Mahrattas v1.c5.s2.9

v1.c5.s2.9

‘I send you my notes on Rājā Rām. The materials are admirably got together, and most of the transactions of the time set in full light, but there is a want of arrangement and of filling up, which may easily be supplied at your leisure. Your difficulty, and yet what none but you could accomplish, was to get at facts and to combine them with judgment so as to make a consistent and rational history out of a mass of gossiping Bukkurs and gasconading Tawareekhs (chronicles).’ ¹