The History of British India: From 1805 to 1835, Volume 2James Madden, 1846 - India |
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2nd battalion advance alliance Amir Khan Arabs army arrived artillery attack authority Baji Rao batt Bengal Berar Bhopal Bhotwal body Bombay BOOK British Government Captain cavalry ceded CHAP Cheetoo chiefs Colonel command Court Dekhin detachment dispatched districts division effect enemy engaged European fire force frontier Gaekwar garrison Gorakhpur Gorkha Government of Bengal Governor-General guns Guzerat hills Holkar horse hostilities hundred Hyderabad India infantry Jaypur Jeswant Jodhpur Kandesh Khatmandu Kiladar killed lakhs lands letter Lieutenant Lord Moira Madras Mahratta Major Malaun Malcolm Malwa marched Marquis of Hastings ment miles military minister Mohammed Nagpur native Nawab Nepal Nerbudda Nizam Ochterlony officers Papers party Peshwa Pindaris plunder Poona possession princes principal province Raja of Nagpur Raja of Nepal Rajput regiment Resident retreat revenue rupees Saheb sent settlement Sindh Sindhia sion Sipahis stockade surrender territories Thomas Hislop thousand tion town treaty Trimbak troops village Zemindars
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Page 577 - In the early portion of its career, the Indian press had been left to follow its own courses, with no other check than that which the law of libel imposed. The character of the papers of early days sufficiently shows that the indulgence was abused, and that, while they were useless as vehicles of local information of any value, they were filled with indecorous attacks upon private life and ignorant censures of public measures.
Page 302 - ... and seizing a musket by the muzzle, rushed into the middle of the Arabs, striking them down right and left, until a second ball through his body completely disabled him. Lieutenant Pattinson had been nobly seconded ; the sepoys, thus led, were irresistible, the gun was retaken, and the dead Arabs, literally lying above each other, proved how desperately it had been defended.
Page 199 - We are unwilling to incur the risk of a general war, for the uncertain purpose of extirpating the Pindaris.
Page 391 - No moderation was shown in levying the sum fixed, and every pretext for fine and forfeiture, every means of rigour and confiscation, were employed to squeeze the utmost out of the people before the arrival of the day when the Mamlatdar was to give up his charge...
Page 201 - ... authorised or undertaken, not only for repelling invasion but for pursuing and chastising the invaders. We can no longer abstain from a vigorous exertion of military power in vindication of the British name and in defence of subjects who look to us for protection.
Page 589 - ... battalions. In this place I am surrounded, and daily fighting with the enemy, and look forward with confidence to victory. All the inhabitants and chiefs of the country have joined the enemy. I must gain two or three victories before I can accomplish the object I have in view — of attaching Runjeet Singh to our cause. On his accession, and after the advance of the...
Page 201 - Indian empire, and his previous instructions were qualified by the admission, that " they were not intended to restrain the Governor-General in the exercise of his judgment and discretion upon any occasion when actual war upon the British territories might be commenced by any body of marauders, and where the lives and property of British subjects might call for efficient protection.
Page 592 - ... descriptions are eager to meet the enemy. In your quarter you are surrounded with the veterans of our army, and cannot apprehend desertion from them ; — you have also an immense militia, and many Jageerdars, who will fight for their own ' honour and interests. Assembling the militia of the low lands, and fighting in the plains, is impolitic : call them into the hills, and cut the enemy up by detail — (a passage here the sense of which cannot be discovered). The enemy is proud, and flushed...
Page 488 - Kinnaird, recommending- to the Court of Directors to consider and report the means and measure of such a pecuniary grant to the Marquis of Hastings as should be worthy of the gratitude of the Company, and of the eminent services of the Governor-General. The motion was met by an amendment, calling for the papers and documents necessary to illustrate the transactions at Hyderabad ; and this was altered to a motion for the printing of all the correspondence and other documents upon the public records...
Page 589 - I will not now suffer the honour of my prince to be sullied by concession and submission. If you are determined on this step, bestow the humiliating office on him who first advised it.