A History of the Mahrattas v1.c24.26

v1.c24.26

² [The chiefs of Dhār State are Ponwār (Powār) Marāthās, claiming descent from the Paramāra Rājpūt clan; the founder of the family being Udājī Ponwār, an officer in the paigah, or bodyguard, of Shāhu, who established himself in Dhār in 1723. During the closing years of the eighteenth and opening of the nineteenth century, Dhār was gradually shorn of all its territories by Pindārī raids and the general lawlessness prevalent in Central India, until only the capital and the district surrounding it remained to the chief. In 1819 a treaty was made with the British Government, which restored two of its lost districts. (I.G. Central India.)]