en worth more than L920,000.
The _I.G._ (1908) states the normal revenue as 150 lakhs of rupees,
equivalent (at the rate of exchange of 1_s._ 4_d._ to the rupee, or R
15 = L1) to one million pounds sterling. The fall in exchange has
greatly lowered the sterling equivalent.

13. The Bhil tribes are included in the large group of tribes which
have been driven back by the more cultivated races into the hills and
jungles. They are found among the woods along the banks of the
Nerbudda, Tapti, and Mahi, and in many parts of Central India and
Rajputana. Of late years they have generally kept quiet; in the
earlier part of the nineteenth century they gave much trouble in
Khandesh. In Rajputana two irregular corps of Bhils have been
organized.

14. Daughter of Mahadaji Sindhia. She died in 1834. See _post_,
Chapter 70.

15. 'In 1886 the fort of Gwalior and the cantonment of Morar were
surrendered by the Government of India to Sindhia in exchange for the
fort and town of Jhansi. Both forts were mutually surrendered and
occupied on 10th March, 1886. As the occupation of the fort of
Gwalior necessitated an increase of Sindhia's army, the Maharaja was
allowed to add 3,000 men to his infantry' (_Letter of Officiating
Resident, dated 30th Dec._, 1892). In 1908 the Gwalior army,
comprising all arms, including three regiments of Imperial Service
Cavalry, numbered more than 12,000 men, described as troops of 'very
fair quality' (_I.G._, 1908).

16. _Ante_, Chapter 26, note 8; Chapter 32, note 9; Chapter 49, note
2.

17. In _Ramaseeana_ the author has fully described the practices of
the Thugs in taking omens, and the feelings with which they regarded
their profession. Similar information concerning other criminal
classes is copiously given in the _Report on Budhuk alias Bagree
Decoits_. See also Meadows Taylor, _Confessions of a Thug_, in any
edition.

18. These notions are still prevalent.

19. December, 1835, Christmas Day.

20. 'Overthrower of horses'; the same epithet is applied to the
Utangan river, south of the Agra district, owing to the difficulty
with which it is crossed when in flood (_N.W.P. Gazetteer_, 1st ed.,
vol. vii, p. 423).

21. Sindhia's territories, measuring 25,041 square miles, are in
parts intermixed with those of other princes, and so extend over a
wide space. Gwalior and its government have been discussed already in
Chapter 36.

CHAPTER 50

Dholpur, Capital of the Jat Chiefs of Gohad--Con