Administrative System of the Marathas c18.s1.6

c18.s1.6

It is needless to add that in these selections not a single department of the Poona government has been left unillustrated and no student of the Maratha administrative system can do without these nine volumes of the *Peshwas' Diaries*. They are however not without defects as was pointed out by Mr. V. K. Rajwade. For unavoidable reasons, over which the editors had no control, some of the papers have not been published in full, and the uninitiated reader sometimes finds it difficult to grasp the purport of a mutilated record. The English summaries given in the footnote are not only very brief but sometimes hopelessly inaccurate. Rao Bahadur D. B. Parasnis further drew upon the Poona records and published two more volumes in his *Itihas Sangraha*. *Peshwe Daftaratil Nivadak Kagad Patre* deals with military matters alone and *Peshwe Daftaratil Sanada Patre* throws fresh light on both the civil and the military branches of the administration. I may here add that the seven volumes of *Itihas Sangraha* abound in original records of the greatest importance.