MADRAS JOURNAL 



OF 



LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. 



No. 8,—JuIi/, 1835, 



SKETCH OP THE LIFE OP THE RAMOOSSY CHIEF 

 OOMIAH NAIK, KHOMNEY OF POORUNDUR, 



Co7itinued from Nwnher 7, 

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

 in the Sattarah Territory and in the Poona and 

 Ahmednnggur Districts — By Captain Alexander 

 Mackintosh of the 21th Regt, M. I. Commanding 

 Ahmednvggnr Local Corps. 



CHAPTER XVL 



A detachment arrives from Ahmednuggur, — Troops in motioii at Aurunga- 

 bad, in consequence of the reports circulated by the friends of the Bund. — 

 Oomiah addresses a proclamation to the natives of India, calling on them 

 to destroy the Europeans, — The Bund go to Pairgum : several of the Naiks 

 seized. — Oomiah and his adherents greatly alarmed, secret themselves in 

 the ravines.— They are discovered in the hills near Pinggory, and attack- 

 ed. — They retire by Hurgooda, wounding several of the inhabitants. — Re- 

 occupy their old haunts south of the Salpie ghaut. — Several parties of 

 Sibundies employed under Patells. — The chiefs of the Bund accuse persons 

 at Poona of causing the disturbance. — The greater part of the troops with- 

 drawn. — Government express their high approbation of the proceedings 

 against the Ramoossies. — The Bund occupy the part of the country where 

 the detachments, 8th regiment, were posted. — Many fruitless attempts 

 made to surprise Oomiah. — Bappoo Singh employed,— A skirmish between 

 the Bund and some of the inhabitants near Greem. — A detachment of the 

 11th regiment attacks the Ramoossies. — The Bund so harassed that they 

 put one of their own men to death, as he was unable to accompany them. — 

 They cross to the south of the Neera river. — Kalloo and his cousins rejoin 

 the Bund. — They offer to destroy the chiefs, but are forbidden to do so. 



On the 12th February, two hundred men under Cap- 

 tam Livingstone, of the 8th regiment, arrived from 

 Ahmednuggur ; these men were posted in the country 

 north and east of Jejoory, with directions to keep up a 

 communication with the Mamlutdars (the native collec- 

 tors) of the districts of the southern boundary of the 



