Shivaji and His Times c20.s6.2
Shivaji and His Times c20.s6.2
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c20.s6.2
No higher credence can be claimed by the bakhar literature of the 19th or very late 18th century. They do not make the least pretence of being based upon old written records, but contain loose traditions (often palpably false) in their latest and most perverted form, a maximum of legends, supernatural marvels and bazar gossip, with a minimum of facts and dates. Nearly all of them are of unknown date and authorship. They are no more history than the Sanskrit Puranas, and they bear the signs of being the production of some ignorant credulous dull-brained persons and not the work of any intelligent minister of State or scholarly author.