Shivaji and His Times c4.s4.4
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∗ In 1880 an English observer wrote of the Maratha peasantry (of the Kunbi caste), "They are hard-working, temperate, hospitable, fond of their children and kind to strangers. At the same time they are cruel in revenge, and seldom scruple to cheat either Government or their creditors." (Bom. Gaz. xviii. pt. 1, 288.)