A History of the Mahrattas v1.c7.18

v1.c7.18

¹ [Marāthi, in its various dialects, extends to-day nearly across the peninsula of India. In the Bombay Presidency it covers the north of the Deccan plateau and a strip of country between the Ghāts and the Arabian Sea, extending to about a hundred miles south of Goa. It is also the language of Berār and of a good portion of the north-west of the Nizam's dominions. It stretches across the Central Provinces (except in a few localities in the extreme south, where Telugu is the language) and occupies also a great portion of Bastār. (Census of India, 1901, vol. i, p. 314.) The Marāthi-speaking population, according to the Census of 1911, numbers more than 19 millions, of whom 9 millions belong to the Bombay Presidency, 4½ millions to the Central Provinces and Berār, and 3½ millions to the Nizam's dominions.]