A History of the Mahrattas v2.c49.24

v2.c49.24

¹ [Amīr Khān (Umeer Khan) was the famous leader of banditti who on the annihilation of the Pindāris in 1817, during the Generalship of Lord Hastings, was granted the principality of Tonk in return for surrendering his artillery to the British Government and disbanding his followers, who for several years had been the scourge of Mālwā and Rājputāna. He has been justly described as ‘one of the most atrocious villains that India ever produced.’ He opposed Lord Lake at Bharatpur in 1805. His name occurs in Sir A. Lyall’s poem, ‘The Old Pindaree,’ in Verses Written in India, 1889 (Sleeman’s Rambles, &c., ed. V. A. Smith (1915), p. 130 n.).]