This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: ...How did the British Government fulfil it, when after receiving all the help that Dhar could Sec House of Lords' Return of Treaties, p. 412 and foil. give, it left that state so long without the protection stipulated, at the mercy of the mutineers? And then, forsooth, it must take advantage of its own wrong, without the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: ...How did the British Government fulfil it, when after receiving all the help that Dhar could Sec House of Lords' Return of Treaties, p. 412 and foil. give, it left that state so long without the protection stipulated, at the mercy of the mutineers? And then, forsooth, it must take advantage of its own wrong, without the shadow of a judicial investigation, without notice, without so much as a specific charge;--only those vague ones of "enmity and opposition" which are the very resource of despots in want of an excuse--to declare the treaty abrogated; to annex, temporarily at least, the territory of an ally, to bully a woman and a child, --Hindoos by the hands of a Mussulman, --to confiscate private property, to outrage the feelings of a whole people through those sales by auction of their chief's goods and chattels which invariably prove so deeply galling. Restitution indeed, after such proceedings as these! Why, if you doubled the Dhar territory, it would be barely compensation enough to the state, --let alone the individuals, the Minister for instance, who declares that before the outbreak of the troops their mutinous disposition was more than once communicated by him to the British authorities, and their aid implored. If this be the way our friends are treated after such a crisis as that of 1857, Heaven preserve us from any other! But take the case of Indore. Perhaps of all the native states of India, there is none better governed, --by an excellent prince, and an excellent minister. Rao Ramchunder Rao may fairly rank as one of the great Indian ministers of the day. Those who know him well speak unanimously of his striking intelligence, of his being far in advance of his countoymen. Both his master and himself are anxious to promote education. Holkar...
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