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Pacification and Patronage in the Maratha Deccan, 1803–1818*

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MESROB VARTAVARIAN
MESROB VARTAVARIAN*
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Abstract

This article examines pacification operations conducted by British colonial armies throughout the Maratha Deccan from 1803 to 1818. The East India Company assembled concentrations of coercive force by extending patronage to loyalist elites and mobile war bands. Military contingents from allied princely states were mobilized and combined with a policy of brokerage intended to demobilize hostile forces holed up in forts or engaged in brigandage. Pacification through a mixture of negotiations and force ensured loyalist groups a privileged place in the emerging colonial order.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 50 , Issue 6 , November 2016 , pp. 1749 - 1791
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I would like to thank Sujit Sivasundaram, Jon Wilson, David Washbrook, Joya Chatterji, and the anonymous reviewers at Modern Asian Studies for their comments and criticisms of previous drafts of this article. Its errors and oversights are mine alone.

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64 Minute by N.B. Edmondstone, 29 April 1814, IOR, HM 598, ff. 243–47.

65 Malcolm to Elphinstone, 5 November 1817, MSS Eur. F88/402, ff. 109–10. Thomas Munro considered Company military action to be an essential precondition for bringing order to the southern Maratha country, a region long in the grips of anarchy brought about by turbulent feudatories. See Munro to Elphinstone, 28 August 1818, MSS Eur. F88/383, f. 67.

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127 Petition of Sadnundrow, 8 November 1817, IOR, BMC P/357/11, ff. 4955–56.

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131 Robertson to Brigadier General Smith, 1 February 1818, IOR, BMC P/357/15, ff. 548–49; Marriott to Robertson, 3 February 1818, ibid., ff. 764–66.

132 The largest number of pensions were granted to those who had provided military intelligence. ? to Metcalfe, 28 October 1819, MSS Eur. F88/407, ff. 34–35.

133 Extract from General Orders, Bombay Head Quarters, 11 July 1810, MSS Eur. D666.

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135 Malcolm to Young, ? May 1818, MSS Eur. F88/383, f. 3.

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137 Ibid., ff. 3–4.

138 For a report on wages and the place of sepoy regiments in an enlarged Madras Presidency, see Conway to Wood, n.d., IOR, MMC P/259/83, ff. 7601, 7605–07, 7612–14.

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140 Morison to Wood, 19 July 1817, IOR, MMC P/259/60, ff. 6993–95.

141 General Orders by the Commander-in-Chief, 24 December 1817, IOR, MMC P/259/74, ff. 2798–99.

142 Petition of Rambaj, n.d., IOR, BMC P/354/32, ff. 4711–13.

143 Petition of Begum Bhicco and Tatima of Bombay, n.d., IOR, BMC P/357/10, ff. 4357–59.

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145 Dyce to Elliott, 2 September 1817, IOR, MMC P/259/73, ff. 2110–12.

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147 Bombay Castle to Fort St George, 7 September 1838, NAI, Foreign Department (FD), Secret Proceedings (SP), nos. 48–49, ff.11–12; Bombay Castle to the Secretary to Government, 11 September 1838, NAI, FD, SP, nos. 50–51, ff. 5–6; Fort William to Fort St George, 17 October 1838, NAI, FD, SP, no. 52, f. 4.

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