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The Asiatic Journal for November 1827

1827

Many proofs of the secret hotility of Sindhia reached the knowledge of the Governor-general who intecepted some of his letters to the Pindarry chiefs as well as others to the court of Nepaul which his Lordship directed the British resident to present to the Maharajah unopened in full durbar. [...] Moorcroft the superintedent of the Company's studs then travelling over the country came to see the celebrated breeds of Mahratta Iporses I introduced him to Sindhia and on mentioning the purport of his -visit he immediately appointed the next day and a plain close to our own camp as the rendezvous for the Mahratta cavaliers and the scene of their noble horsemanship? [...] His finances were then very low as were the spirits of his army aftec the diastrous campaigns of 1803-4." The success of the British arms over this chieftain and the consequent diminution of his territory proved ruinous to the independence of the minor states of Central India. [...] On the occasion of the first entertainment he gave a torch-bearer accidentally set the whole in a blaze; and the general report throtighout the camp the next day was that spring-guns daggers and other implements of destruction were placed btween the folds of the cloth. [...] had so far retarded our advance that on the evening of the 25th the head of the fleet was only at the mouth of the Gogra nulla twelve miles from Buddepoor a distance which in the ordinary state of the river may be travelled in eight hours.
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Pages
153
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.120104
Segment Pages Author Actions
Memoir of Doulut Rao Sindhia
533-541 unknown view
St. Mary’s Island Madagascar
542-548 unknown view
The “Forget-Me-Not” for 1828
548-548 unknown view
The Burmese War
549-557 unknown view
Comparative Rank of the Civil and Military Services in India
557-557 unknown view
Account of the Indian Sects of Jina and Buddha
558-563 H.T. Colebrooke view
The Influence of the Mongol Tartars upon Russian Manners
564-568 unknown view
Emigration of Retired India Officers to New South Wales
569-569 unknown view
British Commerce with Siam
570-577 unknown view
Colonel Macdonald’s Reply to Major Parlby
578-579 unknown view
Analysis of the Code of Menu
580-583 unknown view
State of Education in Southern India
584-586 unknown view
Varieties
587-595 unknown view
Asiatic Intelligence
596-iv unknown view
Debate at the East-India House
621-658 unknown view
Indian Courts-Martial
658-663 unknown view
Calcutta Stamp Tax
663-669 unknown view
Home Intelligence
669-676 unknown view

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