4.  A small principality, about seventy miles equidistant from Agra, Gwalior, Mathura, Alwar, Jaipur, and Tonk.  The attack on Karauli occurred in 1813.  Full details are given in the author’s Report on Budhuk alias Bagree Decoits, pp. 99-104.

5.  Four hundred thousand rupees.

6. Ante, Chapter 33, note 15.

7.  Seven hundred thousand rupees.

8.  Raghugarh is now a mediatized chiefship in the Central India Agency, controlled by the Resident at Gwalior.  Bajranggarh, a stronghold eleven miles south of Guna (Goonah), and about 140 miles distant from Gwalior, is in the Raghugarh territory.

9.  Three hundred thousand and two hundred thousand rupees, respectively.  Bahadurgarh is now included in the Isagarh district of the Gwalior State.

10.  I cannot find any mention of Lopar, if the name is correctly printed.  Garha Kota seems to be a slip of the pen for Garha.  Garha Kota is in British territory, in the Sagar District, C. P. But Garha is a petty state, formerly included in the Raghugarh State.  The town of Garha is on the eastern slope of the Malwa plateau in 25 deg. 2’ N. and 78 deg. 3’ E. (I.G., 1908, s.v.).

11.  On the coronation or installation of every new prince of the house of Sindhia, orders are given to plunder a few shops in the town as a part of the ceremony, and this they call or consider ’taking the auspices’.  Compensation is supposed to be made to the proprietors, but rarely is made.  I believe the same auspices are taken at the installation of a new prince of every other Maratha house.  The Moghal invaders of India were, in the same manner, obliged to allow their armies to take the auspices in the sack of a few towns, though they had surrendered without resistance.  They were given up to pillage as a religions duty.  Even the accomplished Babar was obliged to concede this privilege to his army. [W.  H. S.]

In reply to the editor’s inquiries, Colonel Biddulph, officiating Resident at Gwalior, has kindly communicated the following information on the subject of the above note, in a letter dated 30th December, 1892.  ‘The custom of looting some “Banias’” shops on the installation of a new Maharaja in Gwalior is still observed.  It was observed when the present Madho Rao Sindhia was installed on the gadi on 3rd July, 1886, and the looting was stopped by the police on the owners of the shops calling out “Dohai Madho Maharajki!” five shops were looted on the occasion, and compensation to the amount of Rs. 427, 4, 3 was paid to the owners.  My informant tells me that the custom has apparently no connexion with religion, but is believed to refer to the days when the period between the decease of one ruler and the accession of his successor was one of disorder and plunder.  The maintenance of the custom is supposed to notify to the people that they must now look to the new ruler for protection.