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THE STORY OF AN INDIAN : PRINCESS. 237
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the rate their d most own chieftains hands successful . were As warrior theoreticall regarded ho th w y eir ever on government an naturall equality y , taking witE all the each the confede other first - ,
p ( who lace Bore amon the g them famil ; y and name two of , other Puar the ) families had Sindias , thus besides and become the th distingui at Holkar of Sevajee shed the
among the tribes . These were s , latter of shep being herds of , and the tribe the first of goatherds among them , a lower who father rose division bor above of the the hi pea race her
sant class was Mulhar "Rao Holkar , whose e no g rank called than Hull that whence of a _" respectable the family cultivator name ( properl " in a y village Hulkur of ) the is derived Deccan ;
thus many from of the the , princi designation pal Mahrattas of the village formin where g a surname they were for themselves bornadded ;
, to the substantive Kurwhich signifies an inhabitant . Had Mulhar Kao Holkar been born a , chief , a description of the state of the heavens have
been when at the kep the time t peasant in of the his famil birth babe y , archives first duly recorded saw ; but the li no by ht note an - astrologer which was , taken is therefor , would of the e onl dat y e
supposed to have been about the _yeax g 1693 , . His father dying before he was frve oldhis mother took up her residence with
her brotherwho earl years y sent , the little boy afieXd to tend his sheep ; but having one , day been overcome by the heathe was found lying
, liarl asleep sacred with ) a beside cobra di him cap interposing ella ( a species its hood of snake betwe deemed en him pecu and
the sun y to screen him from , the rays . An omen so auspicious—for the like incident is narrated concerning several other Hindu youths
who attained to greatness— marked him out as intended by Provihis dence tincle for a therefore higher career took th him an the from pastoral watchin life g coul the d afford sheep , fold and ,
first gave soldiers actio him whom n a in horse which he kept , and they in sent the were service him engaged to of join a the chi a eftain youthful part , of y of rank Mulhar twenty . In - slew five the
for the leader his uncl of e the then opposing gave force him , his his bravery daug , hter winning in marriage a fair reward ; other ,
achievements followedand his fame at last reaching the ears of Bazerow , the Peisluva , or prime minister ( an hereditary office in
that country ) , this dignitary took him into his own service , raised undertake him to high the command general , and management after many of successes the Mahratta appointed interest him in to
Malwaand when that territory was completely subjugated , the district of _^ Indore was assigned to him for the support of his troops .
Though he always showed great deference to the Peishwa , with whom he was a great favouritethat functionary was only nominally
his superior , for from the invasion , of Malwa till his death , a period of more than thirtMulhar was in factas the most distinguished
of the military y commanders years , of the Mahratta , empire , the real ruler
of that country , * and though the Deccan and Hindostan were the
The Story Of An Indian : Princess. 237
THE STORY OF AN INDIAN : PRINCESS . 237
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1863, page 237, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061863/page/21/
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