This has always been held with the utmost pomp and magnificence at every centre of Mahratta wealth and power.
Apart from the Mahratta Brahmans, as already mentioned, the Mahratta nobles and princes are not generally fine-looking men.
The only Mahratta prince who still maintains, in any degree, his independence, is the Scindiah; the others receive pensions.
Why should he answer to a Mahratta laonee if he be Wahabi—or Sikh?'
Half the provinces of the empire were turned into Mahratta principalities.
