A History of the Mahrattas v1.c26.7

v1.c26.7

The depredations of the pirates on the coast were still continued; for although Sumbhajee Angria was dead, and Mannajee remained in nominal obedience to the Peishwa and generally pacific towards the English, Toolajee, who had succeeded to the territories of his half-brother Sumbhajee, situated between Bancoote and Sawunt Waree, disavowed the Peishwa’s authority, and seized and plundered all ships not bearing his own passport, which he could overpower. The Raja of Kolapoor and the Sawunts of Waree followed a like system; and by the English were indiscriminately termed Malwans²; a name given to them from the fort of Malwan, or Sindeedroog, which commanded the principal fort on their coast, and belonged to the Raja of Kolapoor.