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Memoirs of His Highness Shri Shahu Chhatrapati Maharaja of Kolhapur

1924

The House of the Chhatrapatis (literally the Suzerain Rulers) though no more entitled to the political headship of the Ma hratta Nation is still looked upon as the natural centre of the national life of the Mahrattas of which the foundations were laid truly andSdeep by the greatest Hindu King since the days of Ashok Shivaji the Great in the seventeenth century. [...] We need not go into the details of the intrigues and treachery which followed Shaba's death The brutal murder of Sakwarbai and the imprisonment of Tarabai frustrated all hopes of the two branches being united and cleared the way of the Peshwa who straightway put the new boy-king of Satara into custody at the Fort of his capital and became the virtual master of the Mahratta. [...] Whatever may have been tho justification of B01110 of the terms Pf the Agreement the treatment it offered to the Taliagirdairri of the Raj was such as to encourage them in their desire to 150ndependent of their master the Maharaja Saheb of them; big as well as small wore anxious to emulate the example of the great Jahagirdars of the Peshwa like the Scindia the Hellcat and the Gailcwad who ha [...] of the State who formed its chief population ? At the end of 1881 shortly before the adoption of Shahu Chhatrapati and almost at the end of the regime of Rao Bahadur Barve the literacy of the Brahmin community stood at 79.1 while that of the Marathas was 8.6 that of the Kunbis was 1.5 that of the Alitssahnans was 7.5 and of the Jains and Lingayats nearly 10.6. [...] The months of waiting that intervened between the death of Shivaji IV and the end of February filled the people not only of Kolhapur but far outside the limits of the State with misgivings about the future of the Raj "in which " as the Regent put it in his reply to the Sabha " is symbolised in modified shape the traditional greatness of the Maratha ram" The feelings of the people of Kolhaput were
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Pages
417
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.144376
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-iv A. B. Lathee view
Frontmatter
i-xx A. B. Lathee view
Chapter I The Foundations of the State
1-9 A. B. Lathee view
Chapter II The Dark Days of Kolhapur
10-iv A. B. Lathee view
Chapter III Early Years
23-41 A. B. Lathee view
Chapter IV Dharwar and Marriage
42-58 A. B. Lathee view
Chapter V The End of Apprenticeship
59-i A. B. Lathee view
Chapter VI The Initial Problems
81-112 A. B. Lathee view
Chapter VII The Trials of 1899
113-126 A. B. Lathee view
Chapter VIII The Renaissance in Kolhapur
127-158 A. B. Lathee view
Chapter IX The Kshatriyas in the Deccan
159-184 A. B. Lathee view
Chapter X The Vedokta in Kolhapur
185-208 A. B. Lathee view
Chapter XI The Coronation Trip to England
209-227 A. B. Lathee view
Chapter XII The Shankaracharya Math
228-247 A. B. Lathee view
Chapter XIII The Shankaracharya Math
248-265 A. B. Lathee view
Chapter XIV A Sham Democracy
266-285 A. B. Lathee view
Chapter XV From 1907 to 1911
286-317 A. B. Lathee view
Chapter XVI Sedition and Anarchism
318-348 A. B. Lathee view

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