New History of the Marathas v1.c16.35
New History of the Marathas v1.c16.35
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v1.c16.35
The comprehensive and many-sided arrangements of Shivaji’s coronation ceremony were a revival to strike the popular imagination and remind it of ancient imperial tradition, which had fallen into oblivion ever since the days of the ancient Guptas and Harshavardhan, more than ten centuries before.