[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Administrative System of the Marathas](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1923) › c8.s5.22 # Administrative System of the Marathas c8.s5.22 Administrative System of the Marathas c8.s5.22 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s5.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1923.c8.s5.22) It is clear from the name of the departments that most of these officers were concerned more with the king's household than with any work of imperial or public interest. A few of them, on the other hand, like those in charge of the artillery, the mint, and the public treasury, fall under a different category. Shivaji's division of his government and household affairs into eighteen karkhanas and twelve mahals was, therefore, not a scientific one. But we cannot expect from a man surrounded on all sides by enemies, and ever engaged in a war of defence as well as of conquest, a scientific division of departments on modern lines. He had evidently copied from the existing system and found little leisure in his eventful career to improve upon it. - [Previous: c8.s5.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1923.c8.s5.21) - [Next: c8.s5.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1923.c8.s5.23) - [Up: c8.s5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1923.c8.s5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1923.c8.s5.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1923.c8.s5.22) · Pramāṇa