14.  For the ‘Baiza Bai’ see ante, chapter 50 note 4.  Hindoo Rao’s house became famous in 1857 as the head-quarters of the British force on the Ridge, during the siege of Delhi.

15.  Many of the Gujar caste are Muhammadans.

16.  That is to say ‘load and fire’, or ‘sharpshooter’.

17.  No one but a member of one of the ‘outcaste castes’, if the ‘bull’ be allowable, will act as executioner.

18.  This sinister incident shows clearly the real feeling of the Muhammadan populace towards the ruling power.  That feeling is unchanged, and is not altogether confined to the Muslim populace.  See the following remark about the populace of Benares.

19.  This remark was evidently written some time after the author’s first visit to Delhi, and probably was written in the year 1839.

20.  On the death of Asaf-ud-daula, Wazir Ali was, in spite of doubts as to his legitimacy, recognized by Sir John Shore (Lord Teignmouth) as the Nawab Wazir of Oudh, in 1797.  On reconsideration, the Governor-General cancelled the recognition of Wazir Ali, and recognized his rival Saadat Ali.  Wazir Ali was removed from Lucknow, but injudiciously allowed to reside at Benares.  The Marquis Wellesley, then Earl of Mornington, took charge of the office of Governor-General in 1798, and soon resolved that it was expedient to remove Wazir Ali to a greater distance from Lucknow.  Mr. Cherry, the Agent to the Governor-General, was accordingly instructed to remove him from Benares to Calcutta.  The outbreak alluded to in the text occurred on January 14, 1799, and was the expression of Wazir Ali’s resentment at these orders.  It is described as follows by Thornton (History, chap. xvii):  ’A visit which Wazir Ali made, accompanied by his suite, to the British Agent, afforded the means of accomplishing the meditated revenge.  He had engaged himself to breakfast with Mr. Cherry, and the parties met in apparent amity.  The usual compliments were exchanged.  Wazir Ali then began to expatiate on his wrongs; and having pursued this subject for some time, he suddenly rose with his attendants, and put to death Mr. Cherry and Captain Conway, an English gentleman who happened to be present.  The assassins then rushed out, and meeting another Englishman named Graham, they added him to the list of their victims.  They thence proceeded to the house of Mr. Davis, judge and magistrate, who had just time to remove his family to an upper terrace, which could only be reached by a very narrow staircase.  At the top of this staircase, Mr. Davis, armed with a spear, took his post, and so successfully did he defend it, that the assailants, after several attempts to dislodge him, were compelled to retire without effecting their object.  The benefit derived from the resistance of this intrepid man extended beyond his own family:  the delay thereby occasioned afforded to the rest of the English inhabitants opportunity of escaping to the place where the troops stationed