Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c29.t2.69

v2.c29.t2.69

We do the sons of Bida no injustice when we style them a community of plunderers. Like the sons of Esau, “their hand is against every man”: and they are too powerful to fear retaliation. In former times they used to unite with the Larkhanis [196], another horde of robbers, and carry their raids into the most populous parts of Jaipur. In these habits, however, they only partake of the character common to all who inhabit desert regions. What nature has denied them, they wrest from those to whom she has been more bountiful. But it is to the absence of good government more than to natural sterility that we must attribute the moral obliquity of the Rajputras, ‘the offspring of regality,’ spread over these extensive regions, who little discriminate between *meum* and *tuum*, in all that refers to their neighbours.