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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.25988#0179
1803-07.
Nagpoor.
155
Pindarrees were at Toomoir. He fled to the jungle with his
effects, but next day the Pindarrees arrived and took some
people of the village prisoners. They discovered the retreat of
the priest, and he lost 5,000 rupees’ worth of property and one
of his children. He followed the Pindarrees in the dress of a
fakeer, and prevailed on them, by his entreaties, to give back
his child.’
The route lay through the heart of the Bosla’s dominions,
passing Khyraghur, Euttunpoor, Odeypoor, Chota Nagpoor,
emerging in the province of Burdwan, whence he proceeded
by dawk to Calcutta. The journal records few incidents of
interest, but contains many remarks on the physical and social
condition of this wild country and its still wilder inhabitants.
He takes special notice of the dialects spoken, and the districts
within which they prevailed; but his remarks are not arranged
with any system or completeness.
There are many allusions to the oppressive character of the
Mahratta Government. Early in the march a potail opened
his grievances, and told his tale of the extra demands made
on the villages for forage, supplies of troops, and forced labour
for building in Nagpoor. For none of these was any remu-
neration given.
At Tilkaya, three marches east of Euttunpoor, they heard
the same story. ‘ I find the villagers everywhere commu-
nicative and obliging. They talk withont ceremony of the
ruin of the ancient chiefs, and of the oppressions of the
Mahrattas, whose pride and insolence they have more than
once contrasted with our easiness of access and freedom of
intercourse. Of course I never encourage anything that is
said against the Government; but no attempt is made by the
villagers to conceal their discontent from the Eaja’s hircarras,
or any one else that happens to be standing by.’
Five marches 011, at Puttergoan, they found the inhabitants
suffering from a scourge worse than the Mahrattas or the
Pindarrees. 4 Tlre potail of a neighbouring village came with
a present. He brought his children to see us. From him I
learned that the villagers in this forest are greatly distressed
Nagpoor.
155
Pindarrees were at Toomoir. He fled to the jungle with his
effects, but next day the Pindarrees arrived and took some
people of the village prisoners. They discovered the retreat of
the priest, and he lost 5,000 rupees’ worth of property and one
of his children. He followed the Pindarrees in the dress of a
fakeer, and prevailed on them, by his entreaties, to give back
his child.’
The route lay through the heart of the Bosla’s dominions,
passing Khyraghur, Euttunpoor, Odeypoor, Chota Nagpoor,
emerging in the province of Burdwan, whence he proceeded
by dawk to Calcutta. The journal records few incidents of
interest, but contains many remarks on the physical and social
condition of this wild country and its still wilder inhabitants.
He takes special notice of the dialects spoken, and the districts
within which they prevailed; but his remarks are not arranged
with any system or completeness.
There are many allusions to the oppressive character of the
Mahratta Government. Early in the march a potail opened
his grievances, and told his tale of the extra demands made
on the villages for forage, supplies of troops, and forced labour
for building in Nagpoor. For none of these was any remu-
neration given.
At Tilkaya, three marches east of Euttunpoor, they heard
the same story. ‘ I find the villagers everywhere commu-
nicative and obliging. They talk withont ceremony of the
ruin of the ancient chiefs, and of the oppressions of the
Mahrattas, whose pride and insolence they have more than
once contrasted with our easiness of access and freedom of
intercourse. Of course I never encourage anything that is
said against the Government; but no attempt is made by the
villagers to conceal their discontent from the Eaja’s hircarras,
or any one else that happens to be standing by.’
Five marches 011, at Puttergoan, they found the inhabitants
suffering from a scourge worse than the Mahrattas or the
Pindarrees. 4 Tlre potail of a neighbouring village came with
a present. He brought his children to see us. From him I
learned that the villagers in this forest are greatly distressed