A History of the Mahrattas v2.c56.40

v2.c56.40

² [Karaulī (Kerowlee) is a small principality, about seventy miles equidistant from Agra, Gwālior, Mathurā, Alwar, Jaipur, and Tonk. It was one of the places attacked by Jean Baptiste Filose on his ‘kingdom-taking’ (mulk-giri) expedition in 1813, and the chief was forced to yield to Sindia the Sabalgarh District, yielding annually four lakhs of rupees (i.e. Rs. 4,00,000). (Sleeman’s Rambles, &c., ed. V. A. Smith, 1915, p. 293.) Broughton described the chief of Karaulī (Kiruolee) in 1809 as a timid youth of limited capacity, belonging to the Jādav tribe of Rājpūts, which formerly reigned at Biāna. The revenue of his state did not exceed 1,25,000 rupees, out of which he paid 20,000 rupees as tribute to the Pēshwā. (Letters from a Mahratta Camp, Constable, 1892, pp. 9, 10.)]