Shivaji and His Times c20.s3.3

c20.s3.3

The nucleus of this group or type of works was some very short sketch of Shivaji's history in the possession of Dattaji (Shivaji's *Waqnis* or chronicler), from which Anaji Ranganath Malkare's son Khandoji took a copy. [The colophon calls the original a detailed history, *tafsil-war*, which I consider very unlikely.] Khandoji, though he nowhere says so, padded out the original by interpolating in it every movement and posting of his father in Shivaji's reign, as Dattaji could not have cared for such small fry as Anaji Ranganath Malkare and considered him worthy of mention almost as often as the Prime Minister himself. I have designated it as the Malkare Bakhar and not Dattaji's work, because the latter has not come down to us.