A History of the Mahrattas v2.c59.16

v2.c59.16

¹ [Anarchy was at its zenith in Khāndesh (Candeish) in 1818—the roads were impassable, the villages were plundered and murders committed daily, the only protection obtainable by the inhabitants of the plains being through regular payments of blackmail. For many years after annexation the Bhīl (Bheel) tribes gave trouble by outbreaks of lawlessness, but eventually submitted to the pacificatory methods of Lieutenant (afterwards Sir James) Outram, who entering the district under Elphinstone's orders in 1825 conciliated the wild jungle-men by feasts and by his prowess in tiger-shooting, and eventually succeeded (1825-30) in forming a Bhīl corps, the original nucleus of which consisted of nine men who had accompanied him on shooting expeditions. In 1827 this Bhīl corps numbered 600 men, who fought boldly for Government and suppressed plundering. Riots occurred among the Bhīls in 1852 and 1857, but were easily suppressed. (I.G. Bom., i. 419, 442; ii. 482.)]