The following picture of a party of maratha horsemen returning from a raid may be taken as an example: 'There might have been twenty-five to thirty men, from the youth unbearded to the grizzled trooper, whose swarthy, sunburnt face, large whiskers and moustaches touched with grey, wiry frame, and easy lounging seat in saddle, as he balanced his heavy maratha spear across his shoulder, showed the years of service he had done.
"Studies in Literature and History"
Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall
It purports to be a free translation from a manuscript given to the author by a Hindu who had in his youth served with the maratha armies, and latterly fell in with the Pindaree hordes, from whom he heard tales of their plundering raids.
"Studies in Literature and History"
Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall
My old Nurse maratha: The war kept me from thee, when at last I could get away.
"Shelled by an Unseen Foe"
James Fiske