..An English author analysed and wrote in 1899 why the Marathas opposed British rule with such bitterness. He wrote many pages on it that I alluded to in my talk @PuneIntCentre two days back (see

It is worth putting it up from the original.. 1/n

He continues... 2/n

..and ends with 'we have taken away his all'.

Written soon after Rand's killing by the Chapekars, it partly explains why the 'Pune Brahmins' were anathema to the British raj.