Administrative System of the Marathas c19.s7.1

c19.s7.1

It should be noted in this connection that British courts of law were at first unpopular in India. Their settled code of procedure, which ought to have commended itself to the Indian suitors was at the beginning regarded as an unnecessary innovation. The punishment inflicted by these courts, the rapidity with which their judgments in some cases were enforced, also bewildered the illiterate Maratha peasant, and it is no wonder that they sighed for the Panchayat with which they were familiar.