Chapter PINANG to PINDARRY of P by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

20th man of the fighting Pindarees should be armed with a matchlock. Of the remaining 600, 400 were usually common looteas (see LOOTY), indifferently mounted, and armed with every variety of weapon, and the rest, slaves, attendants, and camp-followers, mounted on tattoos, or wild ponies, and keeping up with the luhbur in the best manner they could.”—Prinsep, Hist. of Pol. and Mil. Transactions (1813–1823), i. 37, note.

1829.—“The person of whom she asked this question said ‘Brinjaree’ (see BRINJARRY) … but the lady understood him Pindaree, and the name was quite sufficient. She jumped out of the palanquin and ran towards home, screaming, ‘Pindarees, Pindarees.’ ”—Mem. of John Shipp, ii. 281.

[1861.—

“So I took to the hills of Malwa, and the
free Pindaree life.”]

Sir. A. Lyall, The Old Pindaree.