6/22/2023 0 Comments The Anarchy by William Dalrymple![]() ![]() ![]() Ladies of good family, who had never before set a foot on a road fled from the Bargis with baskets on their heads. The people fled in all directions who could count their numbers? All who lived in villages fled when they heard the name of the Bargis. Brahmin pandits fled, taking with them loads of manuscripts goldsmiths fled with the scales and weights and fishermen with their nets and lines – all fled. ‘Let him send his agents, that sinners and evil doers be punished.’29 Soon after: The Bargis began to plunder the villages and all the people fled in terror. Day and night people took their pleasure with the wives of others.’ Finally, he wrote, Shiva ordered Nandi to enter the body of the Maratha king Shahu. ![]() ‘The people on earth were filled with sin,’ he wrote, ‘and there was no worship of Rama and Krishna. “The Bengali poet Ganga Ram in his Maharashta Purana gave a fuller picture of the terror they inspired. ![]()
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