Last counsels of an unknown counsellor, ed. by E. BellMacmillan, 1877 |
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1st of July acknowledgment administration annexation attack Bengal Bhopal Bombay British Government Bukhshee Khoman Singh Calcutta Captain Hungerford Cavalry Central India charge Chiefs Colonel Durand conduct of Holkar Contingent Court danger declared despatch Dhar Empire English officers European Evacuation of Indore EVANS BELL feeling friends Government of India Governor-General Governor-General's Agent Gunesh Shastree Gunput Rao guns Gwalior Highness Holkar's troops Honours and Rewards Hutchinson Imperial Government India Reform Society Indian Prince Indore Durbar Indore Residency Infantry John Dickinson letter Lord Canning's Lord Dalhousie Lord Elphinstone Maharajah Holkar Mahidpore Mahratta Majesty's Government Malwa marks of favour ment Mhow military Minister mutiny Mysore Native Princes never orders Oude outbreak Palace Papers Parliament party political prejudice Rajah rebellion received retreat rupees Saadut Khan Sattara Scindia Secretary Sehore Sepoys Sir Henry Sir John Kaye Sir Robert Hamilton Sowars territorial reward tion Travers Viceroy Wakeel
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161 페이지 - He recalled how during the troublous and anxious days of 1857-58 'these patches of native government served as breakwaters to the storm which would otherwise have swept over us in one great wave.* ' And in quiet times they have their uses.
17 페이지 - ... should be deemed desirable, it would at least be well to take care that the inclined plane by which we were hastening their descent, should not be placed at so sharp an angle as to bring them down, like an avalanche, on our own heads. These considerations were lost sight of in the general desire felt " to extinguish the native states which consume so large a portion of the revenue...
16 페이지 - There may be some conspiracy, of which, as at Vellore, we have not even a suspicion, until the native Regiments open their fire on our barracks : and, as a merchant who is obliged to throw all his treasure overboard to save the ship, a storm may arise in India which will cost us more to maintain our power, than all we have gained, or can ever hope to gain, by our confiscations, (p.
69 페이지 - If he" (Holkar) "had been ill-disposed towards us, the whole country would have risen. All the smaller Chiefs seem to take their cue from him ; and even to the borders of Gujerat, the effects of his conduct would have been apparent. This comes to me from too many sources to admit of any doubt. Let...
68 페이지 - Had either of them openly declared against us, no Englishman would probably have remained in the peninsula. The Nizam would have carried with him the wavering populations of southern and central India ; in either Scindia or Holkar the formidable Mahrattas...
159 페이지 - States; but these advantages are dearly bought. They are purchased by the sacrifice of independence, of national character, and of whatever renders a people respectable.
98 페이지 - Now he'll out-stare the lightning. To be furious, Is, to be frighted out of fear : and in that mood, The dove will peck the estridge ; and I see still, A diminution in our captain's brain Restores his heart : When valour preys on reason, It eats the sword it fights with.
101 페이지 - ... commenced the attack." So my father can hardly be blamed for supposing that help from Mhow was very doubtful. As a fact the treacherous regulars waited to see the result of their machinations before committing themselves, and Hungerford was able to obey orders. But it was impossible to count on this, and after Holkar's troops had begun to cut off the retreat there was no time left to wait and see. Supposing, however, that my father had resolved to await the battery and stake all on the chance...
44 페이지 - One of his avowed reasons for deciding to annex the Punjaub, after the rebellion of 1849, instead of continuing to give the promised " aid and assistance in the administration of the Lahore State, during the minority of the Maharajah Dhuleep Sing,"* was that "we should have all the labour, all the anxiety, all the responsibility, which would attach to the territories if they were actually made our own ; while we should not reap the corresponding benefits of increase of revenue, and acknowledged possession...
28 페이지 - India, it would be with regard to the state of its finances. Where was there a bad Government whose finances were in good order ? Where was there a really good Government whose finances were in bad order? Is there a better test in the long run of the condition of a people and the merits of a Government than the state of the finances?