Sumitra Kulkarni

The establishment of the British rule in Maharashtra in 1818 was an event of cataclysmic proportions. Politically, it spelled the end of the Maratha supremacy in India. socio-culturally, it signified the end of the old order of things in Maharashtra, where new order was yet to strike roots. The period was one when the traditional Marathi society was trying to adjust itself to a new and an alien structure of administration. It was a dichotomous position sometimes ...