The book deals with the administration and economic life of the people in the Southern Maratha Country which was generally situated between the Krishna and Tungabhadra rivers, mostly in North Karnataka during the Maratha period. It explains the administrative system obtaining in this area under the Marathas, focuses our attention on the land revenue system, highlights the commercial activities, and explains the monetary system in the Southern Maratha Country. It gives four important examples to illustrate the administrative and land systems of the land, besides giving two appendices to Chapter II. It contains two maps, one on the Southern Maratha Country itself, and the other on the Nargund-Ramdurg, showing all the intricacies of the situation of this double principality. The region was honey-combed with numerous jagirs, desgats, samsthans and saranjams scattered in different places and ruled or enjoyed by Princes, Desais, Nadgaudas and Saranjamdars. It is thus a highly intricate study of a strange complex of different territories under different rulers or administrators. The book gives us a clear picture of the complicated power structure, complex administrative system, intriguing land system and financial activities of the people in the Southern Maratha Country under the Marathas.