Administrative System of the Marathas c20.s3.5
Administrative System of the Marathas c20.s3.5
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c20.s3.5
They were strictly ordered not to obstruct the remarriage of a willing widow in their community.¹⁴ But it appears from an order of Baji Rao Raghunath dated 1796-97 that the Prabhus had the right of wearing sacred thread like the Brahmans.¹⁵ Baji Rao II tried to enforce the old Shastric regulations about marriage specially in the Brahman community. He ordered that no Brahman should sell his daughter or keep her unmarried after she was nine years old.¹⁶