Administrative System of the Marathas c7.s6.13

c7.s6.13

Sydney Owen of Oxford has drawn a brilliant sketch of Shivaji in his *India on the Eve of the British Conquest*; but it is only a study of Shivaji's political career. Pringle Kennedy has also given us a charming picture of Shivaji and Maharashtra in his *History of the Great Moghuls*. But neither of these scholars studied the original documents. They relied mainly on such secondary authorities, as Khafi Khan, Orme and Grant Duff, and their aim has been to write a readable and sensible summary for the general run of readers. From them, therefore, we should not expect anything that we do not get elsewhere. Maratha history has for them only a relative interest.