Talk:History of Maharashtra

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This is an excellent article, but it has been lifted from the website of the government of Maharashtra. It needs to be substantially revised and verified from external sources.Fconaway 18:56, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

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For example, the following passage is highly doubtful:

The social reform movement of 19th century Maharashtra was the result of the impact of Western education on the elite of Mumbai and Pune. Reformists tried to examine critically their social system and religious beliefs and gave priority to social reform as against political freedom.

The ostensible cause being: Western education? There's more at work here. As Romesh Dutt observed, the political changes came from British military action, from which institutional changes would follow necessarily. Political freedom was not "in the picture", or not "on the cards", so that's a false antinomy. Cf. Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism (1917; repr., Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1973), 60; also, his Greater India (Madras: S. Ganesan, 1921).Fconaway 18:49, 21 April 2007 (UTC)