[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [Shivaji and His Times](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919) › c4.s7.4 # Shivaji and His Times c4.s7.4 Shivaji and His Times c4.s7.4 - **Language:** English ### [c4.s7.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919.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.) - [Previous: c4.s7.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919.c4.s7.3) - [Next: c4.s7.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919.c4.s7.5) - [Up: c4.s7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919.c4.s7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919.c4.s7.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.sarkar-1919.c4.s7.4) · Pramāṇa