Administrative System of the Marathas c19.s10.21

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⁵⁶ P. D., Vol. VII, p. 204. It should be noted that uncommon severity was practised in those days for effectively suppressing robbery. Warren Hastings found it necessary "to order that every convicted Dacoit should be executed in his own village in all the forms and terrors of the law and that his whole family should be made slaves and that every inhabitant of the village should be fined." Hunter, *The Annals of Rural Bengal*, p. 73.