text:  The condition of his states in the latter years of his reign is thus characterized by the amiable prelate already quoted:--"Sindiah is himself a man by no means deficient in talents or good intentions but his extensive and scattered territories have never been under any regular system of control; and his Mahratta nobles though they too are described as a better race than the Rajpoots are robbers almost by profession and only suppose themselves to thrive when they are living at the expense of their neighbours