[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Administrative System of the Marathas](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1923) › c19.s9.20 # Administrative System of the Marathas c19.s9.20 Administrative System of the Marathas c19.s9.20 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s9.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1923.c19.s9.20) ³⁷ The published documents do not tell us how wizards were detected in the Peshwa's dominions. A curious mode of trying witches in Behar has been described, in the Annual Asiatic Register (1801), Tracts, pp. 91-92. Jenkins says that the method of detecting witches by the Nagpur Government was as follows: "The usual test by which witches are discovered, is that of plunging them, tied up in a bag, into the water; if they sink, they are innocent, if they swim, guilty; and they are punished sometimes with death, at others their teeth are drawn; they are made to drink the water in which the skins of dead animals have been immersed, are beat with twigs of a particular bush, supposed to have peculiar properties and are turned out of their caste, and sometimes out of the village." Jenkins' Report, p. 60. - [Previous: c19.s9.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1923.c19.s9.19) - [Next: c19.s9.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1923.c19.s9.21) - [Up: c19.s9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1923.c19.s9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1923.c19.s9.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sen-1923.c19.s9.20) · Pramāṇa