The Military System of the Marathas, with a Brief Account of Their Maritime Activities c20.22
The Military System of the Marathas, with a Brief Account of Their Maritime Activities c20.22
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c20.22
Duan—More correctly, Diwan or Dewan. ‘A prime minister.’ Molesworth, *A Dictionary—Marathi and English*, p. 413. ‘The head financial minister, whether of the state or a province . . . . . charged, in the latter, with the collection of the revenue, the remittance of it to the imperial treasury, and invested with extensive judicial powers in all civil and financial causes’. Wilson quoted in Hobson Jobson, p. 309.