[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Administrative System of the Marathas](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1923) › c19.s10.10 # Administrative System of the Marathas c19.s10.10 Administrative System of the Marathas c19.s10.10 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s10.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1923.c19.s10.10) Jenkins writes of the treatment accorded to slaves at Nagpur: "These are brought up in the families of their purchasers, generally as domestic servants, and are frequently placed almost on an equality with their master's children in regard to food and clothing; and it is not uncommon for persons who have no children of their own, to adopt their slaves as their sons, and leave their property to them at their death. Task-labor, or any work beyond what would be expected of a hired servant, is never exacted from slaves; and in general, they are treated with kindness and consideration, and become more the attached servants, and it may be said friends of the families in which they have been nurtured, than the degraded slaves, from whom no labor can be obtained except what is extorted by fear of punishment." ⁵⁰ - [Previous: c19.s10.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1923.c19.s10.9) - [Next: c19.s10.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1923.c19.s10.11) - [Up: c19.s10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1923.c19.s10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1923.c19.s10.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1923.c19.s10.10) · Pramāṇa