A History of the Mahrattas v2.c54.29

v2.c54.29

The Pindharees,¹ a class of the lowest freebooters, whom we have already had frequent occasion to mention, were early known in the Deccan. Great numbers of them followed the army of the first Bajee Rao; and it probably was an object of that great man’s policy to draw them out of the Mahratta country. It is certain that he left his Pindharees in Malwa, with his officers Sindia and Holkar, that they always attended their armies when they invaded the Moghul provinces, and that the Pindharees of each of these leaders distinguished themselves as Sindia Shahee and Holkar Shahee, or the respective followers of Sindia and Holkar.