Part 1: A century after his landmark Patna lectures, Main Currents of Maratha History remains a classic primer for understanding the anatomy of Maratha power. It seems Chhatrapati Shivaji and Maratha history are condemned to be trapped between the Scylla of ‘liberal’ Western obloquy and the Charybdis of regional chauvinism that fails to evaluate historical processes with objective rigor. Every so often, a piece appears in a ‘liberal’ Western newspaper casting Shivaji Maharaj

Mumbai: Against the backdrop of an ugly controversy that erupted last week in Malad, a delegation of prominent office-bearers from a Jain community organisation called on Maharashtra Navnirman Sena Raj Thackeray, and tendered a written apology. The delegation included Deepak Savla and K. N. Maniar, Trustees of the ‘Shree Dhanna-Shalibhadra Tapagach Shwetambar Murti Pujak Aradhak Jain Sangh’ Malad, who tendered the apology – in Marathi – to Raj Thackeray and profusely expresse