Administrative System of the Marathas c27.s1.2

c27.s1.2

We have before us the financial theories of old Hindu law-givers, but the principles laid down by them had been embodied by Muhammadan rulers in their instructions to Revenue officers. The Marathas simply continued the same form, the same terms and almost the same language in their appointment letters. Thus the survival of the old Hindu principles was due to the Muhammadans, and the Marathas in their turn helped the survival of the Muhammadan forms and practices.