Administrative System of the Marathas c30.92

c30.92

Police—the village police and the district police, 424; subjugation of criminal tribes, 425-427; the Kotwal and his duties, 427-429; Elphinstone on the efficiency of the Maratha police system, 426; the abuses of Kotwal's authority, 428-429; Ghasiram's case, 429-430; Elphinstone's remarks on the Maratha police, 430; the metropolitan police of Poona: its efficiency and honesty, 431-432; testimony of William Henry Tone, Lt. Edward Moor, and Elphinstone on the well regulated metropolitan police at Poona, 431-432; the Kotwal a police Magistrate at the head of the city Police, 522; the antiquity of his office and of his duties, 522-524; the organisation of the city government based on the old Hindu system, *ibid*; efficiency of the city police at Poona under Baji Rao II, 523; Muhammadan influence on the Maratha police, 647-650.