ABSTRACT
All through the rains of 1817, when the country was unfitted for their forays, the Pindaris lay like three flocks of bustards, in three separate durras, between Indore and Sagar, under three renowned leaders, Chitu, Kharim Khan, and Wasil Muhammad. Towards the end of November, Kharim Khan and Wasil Muhammad united their durras. The Peshwa was emotional and penitent, and Malcolm returned to Poona convinced that he was not so bad at heart. The Company's servants were then conscious of a World War, in which their part was something more important than a rounding up of Pindaris or degradation of a Peshwa whom everyone had for twenty years known to be unworthy of the least esteem. Elphinstone noted the Peshwa's 'many acts of impotent rage', of which the destruction of the Residency was one.
