A History of the Mahrattas v1.c5.s4.49

v1.c5.s4.49

With the establishment of the British government in the Deccan and Southern Marāthā country, a new era in Marāthī prose literature commenced. Missionary enterprise was not slow in publishing works in which religion and philanthropy played a leading part, and they were followed, as education on Western lines advanced, by works of a more secular character—historical, biographical, scientific and so forth. The introduction of typography and lithography, the establishment of printing-presses also, aided to swell the stream of Marāthī publications, and it is no exaggeration to say that examples of every type of work, from the novel or romance to the historical treatise or the handbook of science, are obtainable in the Marāthī language.