Administrative System of the Marathas c18.s23.28

c18.s23.28

We have, in the foregoing pages, tried to show the measures adopted in connection with cases of general distress which affected villages and sometimes Tarfs and Parganas, but there were instances of individual distress. These arose specially from the misconduct of the Peshwa's own soldiers. We find in several documents, complaints of plunder and consequent loss, because the Peshwa or some of his high officers had encamped in the neighbourhood. In such cases the amount of loss was ascertained generally in the presence of the District Officer, and the affected parties were duly compensated. In the year 1768-69, the Peshwa Madhava Rao I had encamped at Garpir, Kasba Puna. The damage in this case was done in pitching the Peshwa's tent in some cultivated fields and also in erecting a temporary stable for his elephants. The villagers got Rs. 162 as compensation.²⁹ In the year 1773-74, some crops were injured in Kasba Supe in course of the Peshwa Madhava Rao II's state tour. Ananda Rao Trimbak, Subhedar of the Pargana, enquired into the amount of loss and the Rayats got a suitable compensation.³⁰