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6. For this section I am greatly indebted to discussions with Frank Perlin and to his work on and expert knowledge of the rich Marāṭhī material on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Western India. This does not necessarily mean that he concurs with my views. Cf. his “Of White Whale and Countrymen in the eighteenth-century Maratha Deccan,” *Journal of Peasant Studies* 5, no. 2 (1978): 172–237; and “To Identify Change in an Old Regime Polity,” in *Asie du Sud: Traditions et Changements*, ed. M. Gaborieau and A. Thorner (Sixth European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Paris, July 1978).