MADRAS JOURNAL 



OF 



LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. 



No, T^— April, 1835. 



SKETCH OP THE LIFE OF THE RAMOOSSY CHIEF 

 OOMIAH NAIK, KHOMNEY OP POORUNDUR. 



Continued from JYumber 6. 

 I. — A 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^ Ahmedniiggur 

 Local Corps, 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Ooraiah begins to claim rights in the Punt Suchew's country. — He has an inter- 

 view with the Rajah ofSatara; proposes that the Rajah should decide the 

 matter by throwing the Punt and himself into the Neera river. — He asks the 

 Rajah to employ him. — The collector is directed by Government to inform 

 Oomiah to continue quiet, and to submit his claims to Government. — Mr. 

 Giberne reports to Government the difficulty of managing Oomiah. — The 

 copper-plate deeds, and old grants. — Oomiah's pretended discontent. — States 

 that he has little or no property. — His ambitious sentiments. — He employs 

 the Kykaries to plunder at Arabah. — The Ramoossies plunder the Patell of 

 Dhurumpoory. — The collector sends a Karkoon to reside at Sakoordy. — The 

 Koulkurny of Ekutpoor plundered, and the collector interferes. — Two par- 

 tie^ are dispatched from .Sakoordy to plunder in opposite directions. — A 

 Brahmin at Wurgawn killed, — The Kykaries commit several robberies. — ■ 

 The Ramoossies plunder a house at AUundy, and commit several robberies 

 in Phultundesh, 



It becomes necessary to state here, that Oomiah had 

 latterly began to revive his claims against the Punt Su- 

 chew. He, in his usual summary mannersent some sepoys to 

 attack the revenue of the village of the Kheirbary, belong- 

 ing to the Punt, and from which the Ramoossies asserted 

 they were entitled to receive certain dues. I shall allude 

 more fully to this transaction hereafter, and mention it at 

 present, partly on account of explaining the nature of Oo- 

 miah's interview with the Rajah of Satara when he visited 

 Bholee on the banks of the Neera, a few koss south of 

 Poorundur. 



Some of Oomiah's people had been lately engaged in a 

 plundering excursion in the Sa,taxa country, and upon Iiia 



