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description: In Ispite of the fact that the fwrst tss6vfer rapidly Yfecfedi’fig from usfurther and further, the indefatigable exertions 6f a band of Maratha scholars ledby Messrs ‘Rajwade and othefs h&amp;d thrown such a flood ofnew light on theIvistory of the Hindu Empire Of Maharashtra that the “salient features 6f thatrgv^’at movement have become far more clearly discernible to ws than they wereto those who were constrained for want of better mearfs to view the historythrough the distorted and dim glt§s£s of foreign scholarship alofte. “But as themonumental material, consisting of Estate records, documents, original lettersafvd contemporary narratives that the Maratha scholars have discovered and laidunder contribution, is to a very great extent confined to the Marathi language andas no attempt excepting that of justice Ranade, has been made to rewrite, at leastconcisely, the history of Maharashtra in the light that these valuable researchesthrow on it, in a language that would place before the Non-Maratha scholars
title: Hindu Pad Padashahi