Administrative System of the Marathas c11.s3.15

c11.s3.15

The Kamavisdar and the Mamlatdar under the Peshwa regime, though appointed for a short term, were generally allowed to retain their office for life, and to transmit it to their heirs. No public office was hereditary under Shivaji's administration, and like the Magistrates and Commissioners of British India, his Karkuns, Havaldars, and Subhedars were, as a rule, transferred from district to district and province to province. This can be clearly proved by a list of officers carefully compiled by Mr. Bhashkar Vaman Bhat³¹ from the official letters and documents published in the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th and 20th volumes of Mr. Rajwade's *Marathyanchya Itihasanchi Sadhanen*.