Administrative System of the Marathas c20.s10.8

c20.s10.8

The wives and relations of prisoners were sometimes permitted to live with them in their prison rooms to look after them whenever their health demanded it. The servants and the relatives in such cases were fed by the government during their residence in the prison. In 1777-78, during the administration of the second Madhava Rao, it was ordered that the wife of Mahadji Ganesh Phadke, a prisoner in the fort of Chandangad, and a female attendant should be permitted to reside with him, for the prisoner felt indisposed and the usual ration should be given them.⁴⁰ Similar permissions were given to the family of Madhava Rao Krishna Bhingarkar in 1785-86.⁴¹