..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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q1F2NHHEak&t=2593s

It">https://www.youtube.com/watch... is worth putting it up from the original.. 1/n

He continues... 2/n

..and ends with & #39;we have taken away his all& #39;.

Written soon after Rand& #39;s killing by the Chapekars, it partly explains why the & #39;Pune Brahmins& #39; were anathema to the British raj.