A History of the Mahrattas v2.c54.42

v2.c54.42

¹ [The havoc wrought by the banditti of all classes in Rājputāna is described by James Tod, *Annals of Mewār*, ch. xvii; while the tortures described by the author are also enumerated in Henry T. Prinsep's *History*, &c., 1825. Malcolm states that ‘the women of almost all the Mahomedan Pindaries dressed like Hindus and worshipped Hindu deities. From accompanying their husbands in most of their excursions they became hardy and masculine; they were usually mounted on small horses or camels, and were more dreaded