Akbar, in the seventh year of his reign (1562-3), compelled the Raja of Riwa (Bhath) to give up Tansen, who was in the Raja’s service.  The emperor gave the musician Rs. 200,000.  ’Most of his compositions are written in Akbar’s name, and his melodies are even nowadays everywhere repeated by the people of Hindustan’ (Blochmann, op. cit., p. 406).  Tansen died in A.D. 1588 (Beale).

5.  Shah Alam is the sovereign alluded to.  Mahadaji (Madhoji or Madhava Rao) Sindhia died in February, 1794.  His successor, Daulat Rao, was then a boy of fourteen or fifteen (Grant Duff, History of the Mahrattas, ed. 1826, vol. iii, p. 86).  The formal adoption of Daulat Rao had not been completed (ibid., p. 91).

6.  This observation is a good illustration of the tendency of administrators in a country so poor as India to take note of the infinitely little.  In Europe no one would take the trouble to notice the difference between L60 and L62 rental.

7.  Lord Auckland, in March, 1836, relieved Sir Charles Metcalfe, who, as temporary Governor-General, had succeeded Lord William Bentinck.

8.  The resumption, that is to say, assessment, of revenue-free lands was a burning question in the anthor’s day.  It has long since got settled.  The author was quite right in his opinion.  All native Governments freely exercised the right of resumption, and did not care in the least what phrases were used in the deed of grant.  The old Hindoo deeds commonly directed that the grant should last ’as long as the sun and moon shall endure’, and invoked awful curses on the head of the resumer.  But this was only formal legal phraseology, meaning nothing.  No ruler was bound by his predecessor’s acts.

9.  This is not now the case.

10.  ’It is difficult to realize that the dignified, sober, and orderly men who now fill our regiments are of the same stock as the savage freebooters whose name, a hundred years ago, was the terror of Northern India.  But the change has been wrought by strong and kindly government and by strict military discipline under sympathetic officers whom the troops love and respect.’ (Sir Lepel Griffin, Ranjit Singh, p. 37.)

11.  Gerard Lake was born on the 27th July, 1744, and entered the army before he was fourteen.  He served in the Seven Years’ War in Germany, in the American War, in the French campaign of 1793, and against the Irish rebels in 1798.  In the year 1801 he became Commander-in-Chief in India, and proceeded to Cawnpore, then our frontier station.  Two years later the second Maratha War began, and gave General Lake the opportunity of winning a series of brilliant victories.  In rapid succession he defeated the enemy at Koil, Aligarh, Delhi (the battle alluded to in the text), Agra, and Laswari.  Next year, 1804, the glorious record was marred by the disaster to Colonel Monson’s force, but this was quickly avenged by the decisive victories of Dig and Farrukhabad, which shattered Holkar’s power.