Modern Review April 1926

When the gross and palpable infringements by the local authorities on the stipulation entered into with Lord Wellesley's Government were brought to the notice of Lord Minto in the year 1809 and the Royal claims on the then improved revenues of the Khoisan mahal set forth that nobleman virtually admitted the wrongs that had been inflicted and the total sum of the Royal stipends including the allow [...] I claim restitution of the sums of which the family have been deprived in past years and I claim your Majesty's guarantee for the rigid fulfilment in future of the articles of convention by which a minimum is fixed for the Royal stipend by which the gross revenues of the mahals to the west of the Jumna are assigned to the Royal family should they exceed that minimum and by which the means and o [...] Relics of the past rear their heads in crude majesty in both the Old and New Town : ancient churches—dreams in stone of the men of the Middle Ages ; Gothic towers and archways Gothic pillars Saracenic domes—and high over the ancient castle walls of the Hradcheny on the hill the two great spires of the Gothic cathedral of St. [...] The males take but an :nsigniticant part in the activities of the colony and in many species are present in the nest only for a short time just enough to insure the imprenation of the young queens They do not share the labours of building of provisioning or guarding the nest or feeding the workers. [...] on the one hand and the King of Delhi and Ramohun Roy on the other are for the first time printed here with the kind permission of the Government of India and may be of help to the Rajah's biographers.