Booklet on Britannia, a poem written in Marathi

Abstract

Poem was written in the saki metre, a popular form of Marathi versification then. The poem aims to raise backward communities in Maharashtra to the level of the so-called higher classes by apprising them of intellectual culture and render them happy under the British rule. Tilak claims India to be the sister of the British and not her slave. Looks at the British rule in a positive light. Introduction is written by K R Kirtikar on 30-Sep-1911. Publication date 1911.