Administrative System of the Marathas c2.6

c2.6

To Sir Asutosh Mookerjee, Vice-Chancellor of the Calcutta University and President of the Post-Graduate Councils, I am specially grateful for the facilities and encouragement I have uniformly received from him. Seven years ago, just after completing my college education, I approached him with a scheme of research work. Inspite of his onerous duties of various kinds, he not only gave me a kind and patient hearing, but that inspiring encouragement which a young man needs so much before commencing a serious work with which he has not been hitherto familiar. When I left for Jubbulpore in 1916 to join the Robertson College there, I little thought that I should be able to prosecute my studies under the fostering care of my own *alma mater*. In 1917 I was appointed a University Lecturer. The Library then offered very little facilities for any serious work in Maratha History. Sir Asutosh promptly sent Rs. 500 to the late Prof. H. G. Limaye of Poona to purchase published source books of Maratha History for the University Library, and it is needless to say that but for the facilities he had uniformly given me, I could not have carried on my work.