Fall of the Mughal Empire v4.c51.s6.4

v4.c51.s6.4

On the other hand, the incompetence and venality of the Maratha civil officers were notorious. As De Boigne wrote in a private letter, in March 1794,—"The pandits who have the management of all business at Sindhia's Court, will never put aside the old way of embezzling the half of what is to pass by their hands, which is so familiar in every transaction that it is not thought so much as to take any notice of it."