History · Historical Method and Historiography
UGC NET June 2014 History
Whose assertion is it that Shivaji's Swaraj was nothing but the replica of Watan?
AAndre Wink ✓ Correct
BV.A. Smith
CA.R. Kulkarni
DJadunath Sarkar
Correct answer: (A) Andre Wink — Andre Wink made this assertion, so the answer is Andre Wink.
Explanation
★Andre Wink made this assertion, so the answer is Andre Wink.
★He argued that Shivaji's Swaraj was in essence a kind of Watan or homeland holding.
★He stressed the agrarian and local roots of Maratha power.
★He set out this view in his study of eighteenth century Maratha politics.
★His book is titled Land and Sovereignty in India.
★It deals with agrarian society and politics under the Maratha Svarajya.
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