A Memoir of Central India - 1824 Author:John Malcolm Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. Tke families of the Puars of Dhar mid Dewass. In the early periods of Mahratta history, the family of Puar appears to have been one of the most... more » distinguished. They were of a Rajpoot tribe, numbers of which had been settled in Mal- wa at a remote aera; from whence this branch had migrated to the Deckan. Sevajee Puar, the first of the family that can be traced in the latter country, was a landholder!; and his grandsons Sambajee and Kalojee were military commanders, in the service of the celebrated Sevajee. Three sons of the former, Oudajee, Anund Row, and Jugdeo, served the successor of that prince (Sahoo Raja), during whose reign Oudajee attained considerable rank. He was not only intrusted with a high command, but treated with great consideration, as appears by the style and purportof letters and deeds from Sahoo Raja and his minister Bajerow, still in the possession of the family. This tribe has been before noticed. Vide page 23. + He was Zemindar of Sopaut Kingce and Kuningaum in the Deckan. VOL. I. H Oudajee, eight years before Bajerow conquered Central India, was employed to establish the predatory claims of the Mahrattas over that country and Guzerat. f He however offended the Paishwah; who first deprived him of all power, and, having afterwards imprisoned J him, raised his younger brother, Anund Row, to the head of the family. From this event occurring before the division of the territories of Malwa, the latter is considered the founder of the Principality of Dhar. It is a curious coincidence that the success ofthe Mahrattas should, by making Dhar the capital of Anund Row and his descendants, restore the sovereignty of a race who had seven centuries before been expelled from the government of that city and territory. But the present family, tho...« less