Shivaji and His Times c19.s2.18

c19.s2.18

To every one in that age his own fief (watan) was the only reality, the only object of a man's lifelong endeavour, his highest reward on earth, while Fatherland (patria), if thought of at all, was felt to be an abstract idea, a nonentity. Watan could yield honour power and the pleasures of life, while patria was a mere word, a fancy of the imagination.