A History of the Mahrattas v2.c54.8

v2.c54.8

When Jeswunt Rao Holkar returned from Hindoostan, he intimated to his army his intention of discharging about twenty thousand of his horse, chiefly Deccannees¹; but large arrears being due to them, which Holkar could not immediately pay, they placed him in *Dhurna*, when he gave them his nephew, Khundee Rao, as a pledge that their demands should be satisfied. The advantage of having the admitted head of the Holkar family in their custody was not overlooked by a turbulent soldiery, already disaffected and mutinous; they immediately hoisted the standard of Khundee Rao, declared him the only legal representative, and refused obedience to Jeswunt Rao. But the overawing power of the infantry, and the payment of their arrears, to defray which Holkar exacted a large sum from the Raja of Jeypoor,² had an immediate effect in quashing the sedition.