The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s9.t11.8

c14.s9.t11.8

The selections from the Peshwa’s Diaries (*Daftar*) from Shāhu to Bāji Rāo II.¹⁵ introduce us to writings in Marathi language from 1708 to 1817 and thus cover almost double the ground of the Persian work of the Bengali Moslem historian, the *Seir Mutaqherin* (1780). This literature of some 22,000 folio pages (including the English summary) brings us into contact with some of the texts bearing on the economic, political and social institutions as well as ideologies of the Hindus during the eighteenth century.