A History of the Mahrattas v1.c10.53

v1.c10.53

² [Tānājī Mālūsrē (Tannajee Maloosray) was possibly not a Marāthā, but a Kolī belonging to the Rāj or Mahādev division, which claims to have settled in the Deccan and Konkan about A.D. 1300. (Pres. Address, Bomb. Anth. Soc., 1919.) He was a native of Godāvlī, a village at the foot of the Mahābaleshwar hills, Sātāra, and was originally appointed by Sivājī to keep the Kolīs of that neighbourhood in order, and check their constant depredations. (Acworth, Ballads of the Marathas, p. 121.) As a leading Kolī, he may have been employed by Sivājī on the same principle which led to Rāmosī Nāyaks being appointed to keep their own caste-fellows in check.]