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a man of great ambition, political capacity, and talent for war, who had carried out on a larger scale than any other Indian prince the new system of raising dis- TOMB OF THE SINDHIAS, AT LASHKAR. ciplined battalions under European officers, supported by effective artillery. But it had already been seen and said by the more far-sighted leaders among the Marathas themselves that this system, which rendered them irre- sistible to all other native antagonists, to the loose