Introduction to the Peishwas Diaries a Paper Read Before the Bombay Branch of
Introduction to the Peishwas Diaries a Paper Read Before the Bombay Branch of
Mahadev Govind Ranade
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State stores, where they were made to grind corn, and in the case of men, imprisonment or fine. As regards women convicted of adultery, condemned to penal servitude, or service in the Kothis or stores, it may be Slaves, noted that they lost their status and fre*)doai, and were treated as slaves. Their progeny especially was regarded as the children of no father, but were only known by their mothers' names. The ranks of these condemned slaves had accession made to them of other persons from the ...lowest classes who lived by prostitution, and children captured in foreign territory by Baujaris or Lamans, who brought them for sale in Peishwa's territory. Slavery so recruited thus became a recognized institution, and men and women-slaves were trsnsferrable like the dumb cattle from one owner to another for money consideration. When the slaves grew old, some of them were released from prisons, and the private slavea were also »et free by their owners from charitable consider ation«. 26 tie slaveB, on the whole, appear to have been kindly treated, especially those women-slaves who were made to work in the Peishwa's Kothis, or in private honses.
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