In seventeenth-century India, the Marathas were rooted in the vocation of cultivation, working astillers, peasants andandowners. They were also active in the field of politics and administration,and the rulers of the Maratha clan were revered for service to their subjects.In his classic work The Economy of the Maratha Kingdom, historian Kedar Phalke, through hisin-depth research, provides an excellent account of the Maratha Kingdom’s economy, administrationand social structure in seventeenth-century India.This book shedsight on a variety of issues that played a role in the rise of the kingdom, includingrevenue administration, agrarian economy, markets of the seventeenth century, sources of revenue,diffusion and consumption of revenue, foreign trade, currency system, demography and Mughaldecline.The Economy of the Maratha Kingdom is an excellent account of many untold facts that have beenunearthed by the author through his years of dedicated research.