10. Ante, chapter 20, note 6.

11.  Raja of Bharatpur, not to be confounded with the Lion of the Panjab.

12.  Wordsworth, Excursion, Book I.

13.  The original edition gives a coloured plate of this tomb, which is not noticed by Fergusson.  That author’s remarks on the palace at Dig would apply to this tomb also; the style is good, but not quite the best.  Suraj Mall was killed in a skirmish in 1763.

14.  Baldeo, or in Sanskrit Baladeva, Balabhadra, or Balarama, was the elder brother of Krishna.  His myth in some respects resembles that of Herakles, as that of Krishna is related to the myths of Apollo.  The editor is not able to solve the queries propounded by the author.

15. i.e.  Hari deva, a form of Vishnu.  The temple of Hari deva at Govardhan was built about A.D. 1560. (N.W.P.  Gazetteer, 1st ed., vol. viii, p. 94.)

16.  Modern India shows little appreciation of good art, and the paintings ordinarily executed for decorative purposes are as crude as those described by the author.  A school of clever artists in Bengal is doing something to raise the public taste.  The high merit of the ancient Indian paintings at Ajanta and elsewhere is now fully recognized.  A great revival of pictorial art took place about A.D. 1570 in the reign of Akbar.  From that date the Indo-Persian and Indian schools of painting maintained a high standard of excellence, especially in portraiture, for a century approximately.  During the eighteenth century marked deterioration may be observed.  See A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, Oxford, 1911.

17.  The Jats detest Brahmans.  The members of a Jat deputation complained one day to the editor when in the Muzaffarnagar district that they suffered many evils by reason of the Brahmans.

18.  The author’s meaning seems to be that building tombs is not an old Hindoo usage.

19.  Sivaji, the indomitable opponent of Aurangzeb in the Deccan, belonged to the agricultural Kunbi caste.  He was born in May A.D. 1627, and died in April 1680.  The Brahman ministers of the Rajas of Satara were known by the title of Peshwa.  Baji Rao I, who died in 1740, the second Peshwa, was the first who superseded in actual power his nominal master.  The last of the Peshwas was Baji Rao II, who abdicated in 1818, after the termination of the great Maratha war, and retired to Bithur near Cawnpore.  His adopted son was the notorious Nana Sahib.  The Marquis of Hastings, in 1818, drew the Raja of Satara from captivity, and re-established his dignity and power.  In 1839 the Raja’s treachery compelled the Government of India to depose him.  His territory is now a district of the Bombay Presidency.  See Mankar, The Life and Exploits of Shivaji, 2nd ed., Bombay, Nirnayasagar Press, 1886.

20.  The Raja of Berar, also known as the Raja of Nagpur, was called the Bhonsla.  The misrule of Gwalior has been described ante, in chapters 36 and 49.  The condition of Gwalior and Indore, the capitals of Sindhia and Holkar respectively, is now very different.  The Bhonsla has vanished.