The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s9.t11.6

c14.s9.t11.6

Early in the nineteenth century Malhār Rām Rāo Chitnis wrote in Marathi a treatise on *rājanīti*¹⁴ (c. 1810). It is based professedly on Sanskrit *nītiśāstras* and is to be regarded as a Marathi *nibandha* on this literature. It may therefore be aptly compared to another Maratha work written likewise in Marathi, namely, *Ādnāpatra* or *Rājaniti* by Rāmachandrapant (1716), which we have discussed above. The tradition of Hindu political philosophy comes down therefore to the very days of Rammohun Roy (1772-1833).