![]() ![]() In this record have been preserved also all the adjectives heaped from time to time on Shivaji so that students of history may be in a position to trace the several stages in contemporary public opinion between the "rebel" Shivaji and the crowned king. We have tried to preserve the old spelling and punctuation. The writers are writing about things which they had occasion to know personally or about things which they heard and they reported these because it was their business to do so. Here we are publishing for the first time more than a thousand extracts from the letters and dispatches of contemporaries of Shivaji bearing on matters dealing with the life and work of Shivaji. These records chiefly consist of Diaries and consultations of the Council, copies of letters sent and received, and stray diaries and letterbooks of particular individuals. The factoy records are the early records of the proceedings of the East India Company's Agents and Factors in the East in their endeavours to establish factories and promote the trade of the English. Thus wrote Robert Orme on the 26th of June 1779. Shivaji was the founder of the Mahratta Dominion, in the peninsula of India, and hitherto we have no account, either sufficiently accurate or sufficiently connected to follow his life. " If any portion of history merits more attention than others, it should seem that a period of a revolution in the State or the progress of the foundation of a new one demand the strictest investigation. Published by Shivcharitra Karyalaya, Poona - 1931 The History of India - By its various HistoriansĮnglish Factory Records on Shivaji (1659 to 1682).Art and Artists of the Twentieth Century.Astronomy, Ayurveda, Yoga, Science and Mathematics in Ancient India.History of India's Trade, Industry and Finance.The Dutch, French and Portuguese in India.The Honourable East India Company (1600-1858). ![]()
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