30. Ante Chapter 23, note 13.

31.  Lapse of years has increased the distance and the enchantment, so that modern agitators and sentimentalists discover marvellous excellences in the native Governments of the now remote past.  The methods of government in the existing native states have been so profoundly modified by the influence of the Imperial Government that these states are no longer as instructive in the way of contrast as they were in the author’s day.

32.  The author consistently held the views above enunciated, and defended the policy of maintaining the native states.  He was of opinion that the system of annexation favoured by Lord Dalhousie and his Council ’had a downward tendency, and tended to crush all the higher and middle classes connected with the land’.  He considered that the Government of India should have undertaken the management of Oudh, but that it had no right to annex the province, and appropriate its revenues (Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, p. 22, &c.).  Since 1858 the policy of annexation has been repudiated.  See Sir W. Lee-Warner, The Protected Princes of India (Macmillan, 1894), and The Native States of India (1910).

33.  A.D. 1249 to A.D. 1371.

34.  The Hindi spoken in different parts of Bundelkhand comprises several distinct dialects:  see Kellogg, A Grammar of the Hindi Language, 2nd ed., 1893; and Grierson, Linguistic Survey, vol. vi (1904), pp. 18-23, where the dialects of Eastern Bundelkhand are discussed.  Bundeli, the speech of Bundelkhand proper, will be treated as a dialect of Western Hindi in a volume of the Survey not yet published.  Sir G. Grierson has favoured me with perusal of the proofs, and has used materials collected by me in the Hamirpur District nearly forty years ago.  Bundeli has a considerable literature.

35.  The editor was told of a case in which two chiefs suffered for beating their drums in Mahoba.

36.  See ante, Chapter 23 note 11, and Chapter 26 note 14, and the authorities there cited.  The Chandel history occupies an important place in the mediaeval annals of India.  Several important inscriptions of the dynasty have been correctly edited in the Epigraphia Indica.  Mahoba is not now a ‘ruined city’; it is a moderately prosperous country town, with a tolerable bazaar, and about eleven thousand inhabitants.  It is the head-quarters of a ‘tahsildar’, or sub-collector, and a station on the Midland Railway.  The ruined temples and places in and near the town are of much interest.  For many miles round the country is full of remarkable remains, some of which are in fairly good preservation.  The published descriptions of these works are far from being exhaustive.  The author was mistaken in supposing that the power of the Chandels was broken by the Bundelas.  The last Chandel king, who ruled over an extensive dominion, was Paramardi Deva, or Parmal.  This prince was