Life of the Honourable Rajah, Sir Dinkar Rao: K.C.S.I., Musheer-i-khas Muntazim Bahadur, Prime Minister of Gwalior (1852 A.D.-59 A.D.)Tatua-Vivechaka, 1907 - 232 pages |
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Page 95 - its origin in the army itself; it is not attributable to any " external or antecedent conspiracy whatever, although it " was taken advantage of by disaffected persons to compass " their own ends; the approximate cause was the cartridge
Page 157 - ... post of British Resident, and great potentates had consented to assist in the solemn duty, whilst the Chief Justice of India had been deputed to conduct the inquiry after European fashion, with the assistance of a military and civil officer, each most distinguished in their relative positions. A guard of infantry and a troop of lancers did no more honour than is due to Maharajah Scindia, the great Mahratta potentate, tried and trusted friend of England.
Page 159 - That he had thoroughly misunderstood the spirit of the instructions both of the Government of India and the Government of Bombay, and that the duty of Resident could no longer be entrusted to him with any reasonable prospect of a satisfactory result.
Page 90 - Jhand, he might have struck that fatal blow. To say that he must have felt his power, is only to credit him with ordinary capacity, and his capacity is at least beyond the average. But he was loyal and true. Had the ablest member of the Council of India been at his ear he could not have inspired him with counsels more calculated to prove beneficial to the British cause than those which he and his minister, with the instinct of loyal natures, followed of their own free will.
Page 84 - ... one sense the key of India, or rather, perhaps, as one link of a chain, which could not have given way in any part without ruining our power in India. If the Ruler of Gwalior had either played us false, or succumbed to the strong adverse elements with which he had to contend, the Revolt would almost certainly have been national and general instead of being local and mainly military ; and instead of its fate being decided by those operations in the easily traversable Gangetic valley, upon which...
Page 240 - ... every Government School, every Government Dispensary in the country. He walks behind the Collector ; he follows the conservancy carts ; he prowls about the candidate for employment ; he hovers over the accused and accuser ; he haunts the Raja ; he infests the tax-payer. He wears the Imperial livery ; he is to the entire population of India the exponent of British Rule ; he is the mother-in-law of liars, the high-priest of extortioners, and the receivergeneral of bribes.
Page 81 - ... much we, at Agra, are indebted to Major Macpherson for our immunity from attack by the full force of the Gwalior Contingent, with their powerful siege artillery. The real state of the case was this, the Political Agent had full influence over Scindia's Dewan, or prime minister, the celebrated...
Page 98 - Our expenditure shows a large and continuous growth since the transfer of the Government of India from the Company to the Crown, and recent changes in the frontier policy have accelerated its pace in an alarming manner.
Page 84 - Gwalior, while it thus continued in his hands, might have been regarded as in one sense the key of India, or rather perhaps, as one link of a chain which could not have given way in any part without ruining our power in India.
Page 207 - Tower, and look down upon this marvellous camp. Let him notice the method, the order, the cleanliness, the discipline, the perfection of its whole organisation, and he will recognise in it at once the epitome of every title to command and govern which one race can possess over others.