d forth on such an expedition, at the head of a
division of Sindhia's army, just before this Pindhari war commenced.
From Gwalior he proceeded to Karauli,[4] and took from that chief the
district of Sabalgarh, yielding four lakhs of rupees yearly.[5] He
then took the territory of the Raja of Chanderi,[6] Mor Pahlad, one
of the oldest of the Bundelkhand chiefs, which then yielded about
seven lakhs of rupees,[7] but now yields only four. The Raja got an
allowance of forty thousand rupees a year. He then took the
territories of the Rajas of Raghugarh and Bajranggarh,[8] yielding
three lakhs a year; and Bahadurgarh, yielding two lakhs a year;[9]
and the three princes got fifty thousand rupees a year for
subsistence among them. He then took Lopar, yielding two lakhs and a
half, and assigned the Raja twenty-five thousand. He then took Garha
Kota,[10] whose chief gets subsistence from our Government. Baptiste
had just completed his kingdom taking expedition, when our armies
took the field against the Pindharis; and, on the termination of that
war in 1817, all these acquisitions were confirmed and guaranteed to
his master Sindhia by our Government. It cannot be supposed that
either he or his army can ever feel any great attachment towards a
paramount authority that has the power and the will to interpose, and
prevent their indulging in such sporting excursions as these, or any
great disinclination to take advantage of any occasion that may seem
likely to unite all the native chiefs in a common effort to crush it.
The Nepalese have the same feeling as the Marathas in a still
stronger degree, since their kingdom-taking excursions had been still
greater and more successful; and, being all soldiers from the same
soil, they were easily persuaded, by a long series of successful
aggressions, that their courage was superior to that of all other
men.[11]

In the year 1833, the Gwalior territory yielded a net revenue to the
treasury of ninety-two lakhs of rupees, after discharging all the
local costs of the civil and fiscal administration of the different
districts, in officers, establishments, charitable institutions,
religions endowments, military fiefs, &c.[12] In the remote
districts, which are much infested by the predatory tribes of
Bhils,[13] and in consequence badly peopled and cultivated, the net
revenue is estimated to be about one-third of the gross collections;
but, in the districts near the capital, which are tolerably well