day, before the Oudh Frontier Police was raised, entered the Oudh territory at the head of his police in pursuit of some robbers, who had found an asylum in one of the King’s villages.  In the attempt to secure them some lives were lost:  and, apprehensive of the consequences, he sent for the official news-writer, and gratified him in the usual way.  No report of the circumstances was made to the Oudh Darbar; and neither the King, the President, nor the British Government ever heard anything about it’ (Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, vol. i, pp. 67-69).  Such a System of official news-writers was usually maintained by Asiatic despots from the most ancient times.

8. full details of the rotten state of the king’s army are given in the Journey through the Kingdom of Oude.

9.  Then worth L4,000, or more.

10.  Mirzapur (Mirzapore) on the Ganges, twenty-seven miles from Benares, was, in the author’s time, the principal depot for the cotton and cloth trade of Northern India.  Although the East Indian Railway passes through the city, the construction of the railway has diverted the bulk of the trade from Mirzapur, which is now a declining place.  The population, which wag 70,621 in 1881, fell to 32,332 in 1911.  The carpets made there are well known.

11.  Then equal to L200,000, or more.

12.  The Panna State lies between the British districts of Banda, in the United Provinces, on the north, and Damoh and Jabalpur, in the Central Provinces, on the south.  The chief is a descendant of Chhatarsal.  For description and engraving of the diamond mines see Economic Geology (1881), p. 39.

13.  Then equivalent to L2,000, or more.

14.  The words ‘of the same clan’ are inexact.  The author has shown (ante, Chapter 23 following [10], and Chapter 26 following [32]) that Rajputs never marry into their own clan.

15.  ’The Raja of Chanderi belonged to the same family as the Orchha chief.  Sindhia annexed a great part of the Chanderi State in 1811.  Chanderi was for a time British territory, but is now again in Sindhia’s dominions.  Its vicissitudes are related in N.W.P.  Gazetteer (1870), vol. i, pp. 351-8.

16.  In Oudh the misgovernment, anarchy, and cruel rapine, briefly alluded to in the text, and vividly described in detail by the author in his Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, lasted until the annexation of the kingdom by Lord Dalhousie in 1856, and, after a brief lull, were renewed during the insurrection of 1857 and 1858.  The events of those years are a curious commentary on the author’s belief that the people of Oudh entertained ’a respect for our rule and a love for our service’.  The service of the British Government is sought because it pays, but a foreign Government must not expect love.  Respect for the British rule depends upon the strength of that rule.  Oudh still sends many recruits to the native army, though the young men no longer enjoy the advantage of a training in ‘bhumiawat’.  An occasional gang-robbery or bludgeon fight is the meagre modern substitute.  The Rajputs or Thakurs of Bundelkhand and Gwalior still retain their old character for turbulence, but, of course, have less scope for what the author calls their ‘sporting propensities’ than they had in his time.