^5% CALLED PrHA'NSl'GA'RS. 



lygars, fome of whom had fucceeded in r^qdering thenifelves virtual- 

 ly independent of the former gQvernment, the fc rourde re rsyery genco 

 raU}r] changed their abodeSpaad freqyeqdy^iTajnjied, other; naipe^, 



J. 'J -.'.J iS-V , . •. i 1 J . , . . .^.;, . - , . .V ■ .J i.yn - - 



lA^HitE they lived undeVtlie prote^lion 6f polj^gars arid Other pettj 

 local authorities, and among ptople whofe habits were iti' fome ref- 

 pe&s analogous to their owe, itwas unneceffary to dUIemhle that they 

 fob fi iled !)y depredatioii'.''tTh€y';'and- their families lived '-p.eaceably' 

 with their neighbours, who^lhejr never attempted tomolell:, and "be- 

 tween whom there fubfifted a reciprocation' df ihtereft in the'f)urchafe 

 and difpofal of the plunder which the P'hdfjigdrs brooghV Hidi them 

 on returning from their expeditions. Afterwards, on the exteniion of 

 the EngliOi government, it was iifu^l for the' -FMr7/!_g-^'/\J, ''"while 'they 

 continued their former pradices, oI!enfibly to eiigage in the caltiviition 

 of land or ibme oher ocTupation, to fcreen themfelves from fufpicion 

 to which they rr^uft othervyife have been ;ofenQxiQus, 



' '^P'HA''NsrGA''RS never commit robbery iinaGcompanied by murders 

 iheir pra£lice being firfl to ftrangle and then to rifle their vidims. It is 

 alfo a principle vvitE tliem to allow no one to efcape of a party, how- 



^ver numerbusy'^lircA tb^yiaftail, that there , may be no witnefTes o^ 

 their atrocitieso TheMnly Emitted exception to this rule is in the in- 



Itari'ce oT boys j^r;v^ry. tender, age, who are fpared; adopted by the 

 F'hdnfigdrs i and, on attaining the requifite age, initiated , into ' thci-r 

 ^borrible myfteriest. - ,•■. ,.,„. ./-^ \ ■,„■.■ ■,■ 



.'^Aip.Am^<^^^hari]jgdt4 ^onfiflsof from: ten toUfty, or even a greater 



.iiumber of perfons^; .^Ur^e.^ majority of whom are MufTelmans : but 



Hmdus, a.nd|>artiicularlyfthofc of the Rajput tribe, arc often afTo- 



.^iate4.:^^ ..tJiQ^^^ though rarely, are found .in .the 



