This article examines the rise and fall of the Pindaris in India between the mid eighteenth and early nineteenth century. The Pindaris started their career as military mercenaries of the Maratha chiefs. In the first decade of the nineteenth century, they became semi-autonomous non-state powers and threatened both their employers as well as the expanding British Empire in India. The Pindari threat became intense in Central and West India. As this article shows, in the first half of the nineteenth century, an amalgam of kinetic and non-kinetic measures helped the East India Company to suppress and pacify the Pindaris.

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安抚平达里人：1750-1830 年英国人在印度的战争和国家建设

本文考察了 18 世纪中叶至 19 世纪初印度品达里人的兴衰。Pindaris 的职业生涯始于马拉塔酋长的军事雇佣兵。在 19 世纪的前十年，他们成为半自治的非国家力量，威胁到他们的雇主以及在印度不断扩大的大英帝国。Pindari 威胁在印度中部和西部变得强烈。如本文所示，在 19 世纪上半叶，动能和非动能措施的结合帮助东印度公司镇压和安抚了品达里人。