Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c51.s6.2

v4.c51.s6.2

The Maratha Government in Hindustan had no competent civil service, no stable administration, and no wise foreign policy. De Boigne and Perron, by constant tours in their jāgirs, put down lawless bands wherever they raised their heads, and thus they gave their lands the necessary peace and security for producing crops and paying revenue. That revenue was collected by a band of Indian civil officers, whose work was daily checked by their French masters, and thus slackness and peculation in the subordinates could be at once detected and punished. A British revenue officer noticed, "The Doab parganas having been under the management of General Perron and the others (viz. those on the right bank of the Jamunā) under that of Col. Hessing, the administration of both which officers was much superior to that of the native Governments." (Atkinson, *N.W.P. Gazetteer*, VII. 520.)