Holkar : family name of the Maratha rulers of Indore. The state was founded by Malharrao Holkar (1728-64). He was succeeded by Tukojirao (d.1797), Jaiwantarao (d.1811), Malharrao (1805-33) & Tukojirao II (1832-1886) who was, on Malharrao’s death, empowered by the British in 1852 with ‘royal authority’ i.e. feudatory obligations such as paying through his nose for British ‘protection’. ― “The thoroughness of his loyalty during the mutiny of 1857 was at first doubted but, after the defeat of his army, which attacked the British Residency at Indore [like happened with Gwalior’s Jayājirao], his prudent & circumspect behaviour was held to entitle him to confidence & was made Knight Grand Commander of the Star of India in 1861: received the Prince of Wales with great ceremony when H.R.H. visited India in 1875: made a General in 1877; died 1886.” [Buckland]
... ng matter and the split in the Congress may be avoided. Sri Aurobindo : But it is not definite what the princes will do. They are under the thumb of the British Government. Only a man like Holkar and Nabha may side with the Congress and risk losing his Gadi – throne. This year there is this threatened split in the Congress between Subhas and his Socialists and Gandhi's followers. Socialism ...
... of purely disinterested motives but with certain definite political objects. Neither Drupada nor Virata would have been accepted by India as emperors in their own right, any more than say Sindhia or Holkar would have been in the last century. But by putting forward the just claims of a prince of the imperial Bharata line, the descendant of Bharata Ajamede connected with themselves by marriage, they could ...
... will organize relief with efficiency indeed but without bowels of feeling and with a cold businesslike economy. Nor can we expect them to fix the price of grain or prevent export, as the now deposed Holkar did in Indore to save his people. What we can expect from them, they do; to expect more would be folly. Meanwhile what are Page 189 we doing ourselves? We have collected small sums of money ...
... and bazaars of Vellore staging puppet shows lampooning the British and raising slogans against the firangis. The nomadic fakirs have had a historical association with various Indian armies - the Holkars, the Scindias, the kings of Jaipur - since the 18th century, sometimes acting as mercenaries, joining forces with whoever hired them. But in the regulations-driven English army they had little... records), believed, in hindsight, that the mutineers, especially those of officer rank, seeking to reinstate the rule of Mysore, were in touch with the Poligars (feudal chieftains in the Deccan), the Holkars, the Marathas, the deposed rulers of Hyderabad and even the French in Pondicherry. They had set 14 July as the common date for mutiny, but Beg's treachery had hastened them. Fatteh Hyder, ...
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