MADKAS JOURNAL 



OF 



LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. 



No. 6.— January^ 1835. 



SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF THE RAMOOSSY CHIEF 

 OOMIAH NAIK KHOMNEY OP POORUNDUR. 



Continued from volume L page 316. 



I. — 4 Sketch of the History of the Ramoossies residing 

 in the Sattarah Territory and in the Poona and Ahmed- 

 nuggur districts—By Captain Alexander Mackintosh of 

 the 21th Regt. M, JY. I. Commanding Ahmednuggur 

 Local Corps ^ 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Oomiah bora in A. D. 1799, at the village of Bhewndy. — His father dies. — 

 , Ooiniah's personal appearance. — He resides with his mother when the Ra- 

 moossies were expelled from Poorundur fort. — Proceeds to the vicinity of 

 Parinda with his cousin.— Is taken prisoner by the Nizam's troops, andafter- 

 wards set at liberty, returns to Poorundur. — Dispenses with his turban and 

 ties a kerchief on his head. — When in a state of intoxication, he received a 

 blow from a cousin of his own, the effect of which produced a great chan ge 

 in his habits. — Concerned in a robbery at Ing, is seized; difficulty of con- 

 victing him. — He, and his brother learn to read and write while in confine - 

 ment. — Suttoo's Bund. — Oomiah and his brothers go to Jejoory. — Annajee 

 Naik desperately wounded. — The brothers join Suttoo's party, April 1824. — 

 A skirmish betv/een the Bund and a Detachment from Sassoor. — Oomiah and 

 his brother wounded in a skirmish near Sassoor. — Suttoo dies, and Oomiah. 

 becomes the chief of the Bund. 



Oomiah, or Oomajee, as he was frequently called, was 

 born in the year A. D. 1791, at the small village of Bhewn- 

 dy, two miles north east from the Poorundur hill, and about 

 sixteen south east from Poona. His father, Dadjee Naik, 

 died at an advanced age on the hill fort of Poorundur, dur- 

 ing the rains of 1802, a few weeks before the arrival of 

 Holkur's army at Poona. Dadjee was the father of a large 



