Publisher's Synopsis
In Ispite of the fact that the fwrst tss6vfer rapidly Yfecfedi'fig from us further and further, the indefatigable exertions 6f a band of Maratha scholars led by Messrs 'Rajwade and othefs h&d thrown such a flood ofnew light on the Ivistory of the Hindu Empire Of Maharashtra that the "salient features 6f that rgv DEGREES'at movement have become far more clearly discernible to ws than they were to those who were constrained for want of better mearfs to view the history through the distorted and dim glt s s of foreign scholarship alofte. "But as the monumental material, consisting of Estate records, documents, original letters afvd contemporary narratives that the Maratha scholars have discovered and laid under contribution, is to a very great extent confined to the Marathi language and as no attempt excepting that of justice Ranade, has been made to rewrite, at least concisely, the history of Maharashtra in the light that these valuable researches throw on it, in a language that would place before the Non-Maratha scholars"
