Shivaji and His Times c19.s2.9

c19.s2.9

∗ Nor has he succeeded in convincing posterity. In 1916 Mr. Rajwade, a Brahman writer, published a denial of the Kayastha claims (*Chaturtha Sam. Britta*), on the occasion of editing this tract. He has provoked replies, one of which, *Rajwade's Gaga Bhatti* by K. T. Gupte, makes some attempt at reasoning and the use of evidence, while another, *The Twanging of the Bow* by K. S. Thakre, has the same tone as Milton's *Tetrachordon* or *Against Salmasius*! This is happening in the 20th century, and yet Mr. Rajwade and Prof. Bijapurkar (who persistently treated Shivaji's descendants as Shudras) are nationalists, even Chauvinists.