The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s8.t5.21

c14.s8.t5.21

As a result of the linguistic nationalism initiated under Śivāji the Marathi language became Sanskritized. In the sixteenth century the great Marathi writer Eknāth had used Persian words to the extent of 75 per cent. But in the eighteenth century the amount of Persian words to be found in Moropant's Marathi is not more than 5 per cent.¹⁶ The success of the nationalist movement pioneered by Śivāji the Great was thus colossal.