Shivaji and His Times c4.s7.4

c4.s7.4

"The Deccan Kunbis are [now] all cultivators, steady and hard-working...A very quiet, easy-tempered and orderly class, singularly free from crime, they have much respect for the gods. In the Deccan they are strong, hardy, enduring and muscular, [but in Konkan, smaller, darker and more slightly made.] The Kunbi women, like their husbands, are strong and hardy, but the veiled Maratha women are generally weak...Widows are generally allowed to marry." (Bom. Gaz., xxiv. 70; x. 123, 121; xviii. pt. i, 285, 307.)