The ‘Modi script’ was employed in the documents of the

The Modi script was the cursive administrative script used to write Marathi and was widely employed in Maratha records. Historical library holdings explicitly note French–Maratha Modi correspondence and day-to-day proceedings of the Maratha court preserved in the Saraswati Mahal, identifying Modi as the script for Marathi documents [1]. Scholarly overviews of Modi also state that the majority of Modi documents are official letters, land records and other administrative records from the Maratha era, and that Modi served as the official script during the Peshwa period, reinforcing its association with Maratha administration. Together these sources identify the Marathas as the users of Modi for administrative documentation.

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1. [1] History , class XI (Tamilnadu state board 2024 ed.) > Chapter 15: The Marathas > Serfoji II > p. 238