A History of the Mahrattas v1.c19.4

v1.c19.4

¹ Mahratta MSS. In this chapter the English reader will find a more than usual number of harsh names, which he may be inclined to think might have been omitted with advantage, but they will, in most instances, deserve attention, as those of the ancestors of the principal Mahratta chiefs. [Kannerkhera (Kunneirkheir) is a village sixteen miles east of Sātāra. The ancestors of the family were silāh-dārs under the Bahmanī Sultāns. The founder of the ruling family of Gwālior was Rānojī Sindia, one of his illegitimate sons being the famous Māhādaji Sindia.]