A History of the Mahrattas v2.c59.2

v2.c59.2

¹ [Mountstuart Elphinstone mentions the capture of Singarh (Singurh) in his diary for February 13, 1818. The garrison contained no Marāthās, but consisted of ‘a hundred Arabs, six hundred Gosains, and four hundred Concanees (Konkanis). The Killadar was a boy of eleven; the real Governor, Appajee Punt Sewra, a mean-looking Carcoon. The garrison was treated with great liberality; and, though there was much property and money in the place, the Killadar was allowed to have whatever he claimed as his own.’ (Colebrooke’s Life of M. Elphinstone (1884), vol. ii, pp. 27, 28.)]