text:  This catastrophe left him the only sovereign in India possessed of any degree of substantial independence and with a territory which after all the cessions was still of great extent though much scattered and intersected by the possessions of Holkar and other rulers; so that as Bishop Heber describes it in 1825 "not even Swabia or the Palatinate can offer a more checkered picture of interlaced sovereignties than Maywar and indeed all Malwa