Administrative System of the Marathas c18.s1.9

c18.s1.9

Rajwade were his predecessors in this line and Mr. Apte, the editor of the *Chandrachud Daftar* is expected to be an able successor. But neither Sane nor Rajwade deemed it necessary to arrange chronologically the papers they were going to publish. The records were placed before the public as they were discovered without any arrangement and the absence of an index only adds to the difficulties of the student who has to grope through these volumes for any particular information. Vasudeb Shastri Khare's *Aitihasik Lekha Sangraha*, the twelfth volume of which was posthumously published a few months ago, offers to the wearied reader an agreeable surprise. The records are chronologically arranged and although no index is supplied its absence is more than compensated by an excellent introduction to each section which informs the reader what the succeeding papers have to tell him. In these twelve volumes the late Pandit Khare published for the first time the important papers of the Patwardhan chiefs who served for all practical purposes as the Wardens of the Southern Marches for so many years. No less important to the student of the administrative system of the Peshwas is Khare's *Ichalkaranji Sansthancha Itihas*. A very useful compilation is Mr. Apte's *Itihas Manjari* in which almost all the more important published documents have been included.