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The Inwardness of British Annexations in India (Sir William Meyer Endowment Lecturers 1948-49)

1951

Thus even after the assumption of the Diwani the Copany had to treat the Nawab Nazim of Bengal as the sovereign; and the fiction had to be kept up of a grant of the Diwani by Shah Alam though the Emperor had ceased to have any voice in the affairs of the Bengal Provinces for long and the Nizamat had absorbed the Diwani into itself. [...] Similar pro-")()V INTRODUCTIOX crastination marked the settlement of the claims of the heir of the deceased Nawab of the Carnatic; while the disposal of the cases of the Nawab Nazim of Murshidabad and the Nawab of Tonk was needlessly lengthened out. [...] Thus the epoch of fear of annexations which persisted even in the sixties when the Ruler of Mysore was kept in suspense over his request for permission to adopt a son was followed by the epoch of the insidious extension of the doctrines of Paramountcy and Sovereignty of the Crown. [...] At the same time it did not bind itself to support the arrangment "if it should appear to be illegal or subversive of the rights of any other party or contrary to the wishes of the majority of the chiefs and followers of the Holkar State;" and the adoption was acknowledged simply as "tte spontaneous and unopposed act of the Government of Indore in which the people seemingly acquiesced.""ADOPT [...] Thus the treaty with the Rao of Cutch in 1819 limited the succession to the Raja and "his legitimate offspring." The treaty with the Raja Rana of Jhalawar in 1838 was one by which the rule was secured to the reigning prince and "his heirs and his successors being his direct descendants." Jhalawar was dismembered from Kotah only in 1839 and the succession was limited to the descendants of Zali
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Pages
242
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.145966
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Frontmatter
i-xv C. S. Srinivasachari view
Chapter I Adoptions and Succession
1-23 C. S. Srinivasachari view
Chapter II The Satara Case
24-40 C. S. Srinivasachari view
Chapter III The Jhansi Annexation
41-50 C. S. Srinivasachari view
Chapter IV The Bhonsla Succession
51-70 C. S. Srinivasachari view
Chapter V The Nawabs of the Carnatic
71-102 C. S. Srinivasachari view
Chapter VI The Case of Tanjore
103-116 C. S. Srinivasachari view
Chapter VII Mysore after 1799
117-141 C. S. Srinivasachari view
Chapter VIII The Annexation of Oudh
142-173 C. S. Srinivasachari view
Chapter IX The Cession of Berar
174-182 C. S. Srinivasachari view
Chapter X Conclusion
183-197 C. S. Srinivasachari view
Select Bibliography
198-204 C. S. Srinivasachari view
Other Sources—Documents Papers Etc.
205-205 C. S. Srinivasachari view
Index
206-221 C. S. Srinivasachari view
Errata
222-222 C. S. Srinivasachari view

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