text:  From the death of Dowlut Rao Sindiah indeed the Gwalior state had presented a scene of anarchy and misgovernment to which allusion is made in the proclamation of the governor-general;[21] and which from the impunity it afforded to the remnant of the Pindarrees and other marauders and the consequent insecurity of life and property both in the interior and on the frontier was intolerable alike to its neighbours and to its own subjects