Leah, Verghese and ., Ranjna and Medha, Sundar
(2014)
Savitribai:journey of Trailblazer.
People and Ideas
.
Azim Premji University, Bengaluru.
Abstract
Maharashtra in the 19th century
The Peshwa Bajirao II’s rule was marked by inefficient
administration and wasteful expenditure. As a Peshwa,
he made a terrible ruler. He delighted in humiliating his
feudatories, seizing their estates on flimsy pretexts,
and imagined that their womenfolk too belonged to him.
Societal mores were hidebound and conservative. The caste
system was very rigid. The lower castes, Mahars, Mangs,
Chambhars, Bhangi, Dhedds, could not even cross paths with
people of higher castes.
The small Brahman community, constituting less than five
percent of the population of the Maharashtra region,
accepted Western education and used that education to gain
access to professions and positions in the government
service that were open to Indians.
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