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The Friend of India and Statesman Friday October 3rd 1879

1879

It is thus in the motives which lay at the root of the Afghan policy that we find the only reasonable explanation of the infatuated disregard of the terrible teaching of history and the almost unanimous counsels of Iodide great men dead and living. [...] That was the enormous bleeder we made eviler the guidance of Lord Dalhousie in the case of the Nawab of the Carnatic the case that in all probability officialism iuteeds to bring forward in due course as an example land precedent for settling the Nisamtit of Bengal at the demise of the present Nawab. [...] The case of prescription founded on the usage of more than a century on the repeated avowals of our Government during successions to the Nisamut is indeed so strong that the representative head of the family conlil afford to rest solely upon it and to let the treaties go. [...] Nor would lie accept the rcrluctO wl absordun forced upon the Nawab in the despatch from the Government of India to the Secretary of Snito dated 20th July 1870 to the effect that if the Newel) Nestle had any rights at all under the Treaty of 1770 Ile must have the right to be established as Soubadar of Bengal the Queen retiring to the office of Demo]. [...] If the Nawabs havo acquiesced in their own mediatistion the British Government has acquiesced by a series of Proclamations ou the accession of oath Nawab by Acts of the Legislature and by innumerable formal documents issued by the highest authorities in tho princely rank of the Nawab Maxim in the hereditary tenure of his dignity and revenue and in the faith of " subsisting treaties" being
government politics public policy
Pages
26
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120041
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