2.  Many towns and villages bear the name of Mau (auglice, Mhow), which may be, as Mr. Growse suggests, a form of the Sanskrit mahi, ‘land’ or ‘ground’.  The town referred to in the text is the principal town of the Jhansi district, distinguished from its homonyms as Mau-Ranipur, situated about east-south-east from Jhansi, at a distance of forty miles from that city.  Its special export used to be the ‘kharwa’ cloth, dyed with ‘ai’ (see ante., Chapter 31, note 4).

3.  This insurrection continued into the year 1833.  ’The inhabitants were reduced to the greatest distress, and have, even to the present day, scarcely recovered the losses they then sustained’ (N.W.P.  Gazetteer, vol. i (1870), p. 296).

4.  See the author’s Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, passim.

5.  Partabgarh is now a separate district in the Fyzabad Division of Oudh.  The chief town, also called Partabgarh, is thirty-two miles north of Allahabad, and still possesses a Raja, who, at present (1914), is a most respectable gentleman, with no thoughts of violence.  Further details about the Partabgarh family are given in the Journey, vol. i, p. 231.

6.  Transcriber’s note:- The author then uses the spelling ‘Husain’ consistently.

7.  ’The news department is under a Superintendent-General, who has sometimes contracted for it, as for the revenues of a district, but more commonly holds it in amani, as a manager. . . .  He nominates his subordinates, and appoints them to their several offices, taking from each a present gratuity and a pledge for such monthly payments as he thinks the post will enable him to make.  They receive from four to fifteen rupees a month each, and have each to pay to their President, for distribution among his patrons or patronesses at Court, from one hundred to five hundred rupees a month in ordinary times.  Those to whom they are accredited have to pay them, under ordinary circumstances, certain sums monthly, to prevent their inventing or exaggerating cases of abuse of power or neglect of duty on their part; but, when they happen to be really guilty of great acts of atrocity, or great neglect of duty, they are required to pay extraordinary sums, not only to the news-writers, who are especially accredited to them, but to all others who happen to be in the neighbourhood at the time.  There are six hundred and sixty news-writers of this kind employed by the king, and paid monthly three thousand one hundred and ninety-four rupees, or, on an average, between four and five rupees each; and the sums paid by them to their President for distribution among influential officers and Court favourites averages [sic] above one hundred and fifty thousand rupees a year. . . .  Such are the reporters of the circumstances in all the cases on which the sovereign and his ministers have to pass orders every day in Oudh. . . . the European magistrate of one of our neighbouring districts one