Administrative System of the Marathas c30.33

c30.33

Elphinstone (M.)—on Maratha camps, 149; on Maratha village communities, 212; on Deshmukhs, 243; on their rights and perquisites, 247-248; on Mamlatdar's sources of profit, 264; on Maratha land revenue system, 305; on Panchayats, 355; on the Maratha judicial system and its defects, 369; his strictures on the judicial system of the Marathas examined, 373-375 and 378; on the comparative absence of crimes in Maharashtra, 378; on prisons, 418; on the efficiency of the Maratha police system, 426; his remarks on the Maratha police, 430; on the efficiency and honesty of the metropolitan police at Poona, 431; maintains a pathshala at Poona for imparting Sanskrit learning out of the Dakshana grant, 471. His estimate of the total revenue of the Maratha Empire, 342-343;