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Their armies always took the auspices and set out _kingdom taking_
(mulk giri) after the Dasahra,[2] in November, as regularly as
English gentlemen go partridge-shooting on the 1st of September; and
I may here give, as a specimen, the excursion of Jean Baptiste
Filose,[3] who sallied 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.
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