New History of the Marathas v2.c24.s2.97

v2.c24.s2.97

you like, establish posts, settle and colonize them, build your own palaces and your capitals : hold them tenaciously against all odds ; start your own banks, and trading businesses, foster agriculture, capture distant markets. But do all this in a spirit of self-help and good-will to all. Do no wanton injury to anybody and make yourselves welcome wherever you go. Thus will our nation rise." This is the method Shahu personified in his own example and preached to his nation.