title: Our Heritage Revisited: A glimpse into ancient Indian texts
author: Mrs. Anju Saha
description: Anju Saha is a graduate in Science and in Education, and a post grad in Psychology from Delhi University. She is a retired senior official (Top Executive Grade) from the State Bank of India. She is a regular attendee of satsang where there are group readings and discussions on the scriptures. She has read translations and commentaries of several of the Hindu texts. She has now done considerable research over a period of eighteen months to put this book together in a simple style so as to bring about clarity on the very vast expanse of our ancient texts.
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  A
  SHORT HISTORY
  OF
  THE MARHATTAS.
  (From the early times to the death
  of Shivaji).
  BY
  UPENDRA NATH BALL, M. A.,
  Professor of History <£ Economics,
  D. A.-V. College, Lahore.
  Published by
  KAMA KRISHNA AND SONS,
  . tnarkafi, Lahore.
  L919.
  Price Rs.
  1\8.
  
  Printed at the Panjabee Press, Lahore.
  
  PREFACE.
  A word
  of explanation
  is
  necessary regarding
  the
  publication of this
  little
  volume.
  The
  main
  object
  of
  writing
  it
  is to present in simple language a
  brief narra-
  tive of the rise of
  the Mahratta
  people.
  In
  India
  there
  were races, the story of whose rise
  fills the hearts
  of
  the
  readers with pride and pleasure.
  The
  Mahrattas
  were
  such a race and as long as there will remain any History
  of
  India
  the
  anecdotes of
  the
  Mahratta
  warriors
  will
  be read with admiration.
  It
  was
  the
  ambition
  of
  the
  writer to trace the history of this
  sturdy
  race
  down
  to
  the annexation of their coun