3. formally married or engaged by force or fraud, the claim made by them to control the action of the castes and their independence, and the enforcement of equality in the treatment of different castes all these afford clear indications that social reform was not a subject about which the Maratha and Brahmin rulers Were indifferent. which the late Hon’ble Mr. J ustice Telang first They strengthen the view advocated in his “Gleanings from the Bakhars that in this respect these rulers showed greater moral courage and liberality of sentiment than what people are at present disposed to give them credit for, and that the advantages of English education may well be regarded as too dearly purchased, if our people, in this respect, show a more retrograde tendency or greater weakness of the morall fibre than commended itself to our ancestors only a hundred year'S ago. These notes on the Peishwa's Diaries may fitly conclude here. The Civil, Criminal and Revenue administration of t compares favorably with that of the best Hindu or M ahome the time. It was Wanting, certainly, in the higher StateSman-ship Of Akbar or Shivaji, and it had the germs of its own dissolution implanted in it. Its fall was doomed when it lost touch of these higher traditions, and it had to fight the race of life with a stronger power. But for the OneStly se, the periods When inter. nal dissensions disturbed the public peace. The hidden tendencies Of began to manifest the he Peishwas dan rulers of selves, and to this was joined an utter a higher civilization, and to study the S and sciences and the advantages of a liberal social polity, and failure to realize this higher life any outside influences were brought to opი. Derate Upon us. T lS Seems to be the moral which the study of these papers is fity Calculated teach the inquirer to our past history, and it will be if all O 920 and publicists would take that less Το Heart aη profit b Olli Writers y lt. brought on the final collapse i before s
