[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [Shivaji and His Times](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919) › c19.s2.22 # Shivaji and His Times c19.s2.22 Shivaji and His Times c19.s2.22 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s2.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919.c19.s2.22) Such were the men among whom Shivaji tried to build up his edifice of an independent national State, the men whom he had to employ as his instruments, the men to whom he had to leave his uncompleted task. The leaders were actuated by an insane pride of birth, an all-devouring jealousy about precedence, an ambition that blinded them to all consequences, an incapacity for self-subordination to law and corporate loyalty that marks lesser breads, a lack of political vision and of practical realism. As for the masses, they were human sheep, worthy to be led by such shepherds; their horizon was bounded by the hard conditions of their daily toil, with a simple emotional faith as their only solace. - [Previous: c19.s2.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919.c19.s2.21) - [Next: c19.s2.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919.c19.s2.23) - [Up: c19.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919.c19.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919.c19.s2.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919.c19.s2.22) · Pramāṇa