Shivaji and His Times c20.s8.t5.1

c20.s8.t5.1

[When I began my study of Shivaji's history, Foster's English Factories in India had not reached the period of his activities. I had, therefore, to get transcripts of the old records in the India Office, London, at great cost and some risk of error in the copying. (Two serious ones were discovered too late for the second edition.) Now that Foster's series has been continued to 1670, I have retained my references to the documents themselves as more convenient to inquirers than citations of the pages of Foster's book.]