Excerpt from Shivaji and His TimesFrom the purely literary point of view, the book would have gained much by being made shorter. But so many false legends about Shivaji are' current in our country and the Shivaji myth is' developing so fast (attended at times with the fabrication of documents), that l have considered it necessary in the interests of historical truth to give every fact, however small, about him that-has been ascertained on unimpeach able evidence and to discuss the probabilities of the others.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.