Administrative System of the Marathas c7.s2.1

c7.s2.1

As has already been pointed out, *Shiva Bharat* was first discovered in its Tamil rendering. Prof. Krishnaswami Ayangar told me that linguistic evidence led him to believe that the Tamil version could not be very old. In a paper read before the Second Oriental Conference at Calcutta, the Late Pandit Subba Rao of Madras pointed out that a short biography of Shivaji was available in the colophon of an old Telugu work dedicated to one of his Tanjore relatives. The Tamil and the Telugu sources, however, are for most students of Maratha history a sealed book and cannot be utilised without the co-operation of Madras scholars.