Digital Rare Book:
House of Shivaji
(Studies and documents of Maratha History : Royal Period)
By Sir Jadunath Sarkar
Published by S.N.Sarkar, Calcutta - 1940

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PREFACE

For the convenience of students of Maratha history, I have collected together in one place in this volume all my writings on the "Royal Period" (1626-1700), as distinguished from the "Peshwa Period", together with critical biographies of the four eminent Marathi historical research-pioneers, Sane, Rajwade, Parasnis and Khare. My life of Malik Ambar published in the Indian Historical Quarterly in September 1933, has been left out for treatment on a much ampler scale subsequently.

My materials have come from Persian manuscript sources (patiently gathered during a life-time ), newly discovered Rajasthani despatches, French books, English Factory Records, and Marathi works discovered only in the 20th century, besides my notes of what I have observed and heard during my score of visits to Maratha lands since 1907. Thus intimate personal information about Rajwade was secured at Dhulia where he died, and similarly about Parasnis at Satara.

Calcutta, May 1940

JADUNATH SARKAR