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The Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society

1943

Manuk traced the story from the rude drawings in red pigment in the caves of the Kaimur range of the Central Provinces and those of Mirzapur district which date back to the beginning of the Christian era through the famous frescoes at Ajanta and Bagh of first to seventh centuries A. D. to the Persian and Moghal paintings of the fifteenth to eigheenth centuries. [...] The price demanded by Lord Hastings from the Raja of Jaipur was : "the establishment of a British force in the country the whole or a large proportion of the expenses of which is to be borne by the Raja ; a control over the conduct of the exterior relation of that Government ; exclusion from Jaipur territory of all foreign influence and power ; and the disposal of the military power and resources [...] Although 'the deceitful and evasive conduct of the court of Jaipur necessarily excited the disgust' of the Governor-General he was fully conscious of the fact that the advantages of an alliance with Jaipur were not 'immaterial' to the British Goverment. [...] With regard to the Rajput States the Governor-General's plan was to establish a barrier against the revival of the predatory system or the extension of the power of Sindhia and Hokar beyond the limits to be assigned to it by the measures then (October 1817) in progress. [...] It was therefore quite unnecessary to insist on a stipulation which had 'proved to be so repugnant to the wishes and alarming to the fears of the Government of Jaipur.' Moreover the amount of the subsidy originally demanded might be reduced and the unqualified demand of a fort for stationing British troops might not be necessary 2. In October 1817 Metcalfe was ready to receive the vakils of
anthropology archaeology
Pages
169
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120007
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-viii Saiyid Ali, A. Banerji-Sastri view
Review of the Work of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society 1941-42
1-9 Saiyid Ali view
British Alliance with Jaipur 1818
10-35 Anil Banerjee view
Extracts from a Contemporary Dutch Chronicle of Mughal India
36-54 Brij Narain, Ram Sharma view
The Heron will not Twirl his Moustache
55-73 W.G. Archer view
Neoplatonists and Indian Philosophers
74-86 A. Banerji-Sastri view
Mir Jumla-Iran Correspondence
87-93 Jagadish Sarkar view
Khalji Kings their Coinage and Mints
94-104 S.A. Shere view
Account of Trade of Bhagalpur in the 19th. Century
105-114 K.K. Basu view
An Unidentified Jataka Scene from Ajanta
115-119 M.G. Diksit view
Hindu Contribution to Persian Literature
120-126 M.L. Choudhury view
Yasodharman or Yasovarman
127-128 Dasaratha Sharma view
Notes of the Quarter
129-141 unknown view
Bhojpuri Village Songs Collected from Kayasth Households in Shahabad District Bihar 1940-41
i-xx W.G. Archer, Sankta Prasad view

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