Administrative System of the Marathas c18.s1.3

c18.s1.3

The Peshwa *Daftar* of Poona has not yet been thrown open to the general public, but the inquisitive student gets a glimpse of its treasures in the valuable selections published by the Deccan Vernacular Translation Society under the able editorship of a band of erudite scholars. The selections were made by Rao Bahadur Ganesh Chimnaji Wad, but they were published after his death. The nine volumes of *Selections from the Satara Rajas' and the Peshwas' Diaries* edited by Parasnis, Sane, Marathe and Joshi supply information about all the branches of the Peshwas' Government, their social and religious activities not excluded, as the following headings and subheadings under which the papers of the second Baji Rao's regime have been arranged will show: