The Indian Historical Quarterly June 120027

XXIII June 1947 No 2 The Status of Brahmanas in the Dharmasutras* Inheriting the views of the older Vedic authorities the authors of the Dharmasatras describe the immunities and privileges of the Briihmanas with characteristic clearness and completeness. [...] III pp r vassalage of Haravati manifested for the the nature and extent of szoarndherma the essential quality of the Rajpoot illustrates the severity of the Regent's XI. [...] "There was danger of a popular rising for the expulsion of the Minister; and it was therefore resolved with the consent of the Chief of Kotah to dismember the State and to create the new principality of Jhalawar as a separate provision for the descendants of Zalim Singh.' By a treaty'" concluded on April Jo 1838 the Supplementary Article of the treaty of 1817 was repealed seventeen parganas [...] Lake's) opinion that the Raja of Bundi though his possessions are small may from their local position and natural strength prove an useful dependent to the British Government and the conduct of that Chief (particularly at the period of the retreat of Colonel Monson's Detachment) was such as to give undivided proofs of his sincerity in the wish of meriting the protection of the British Governm [...] Q. JUNE 1947"roo The Subsidiary System in Rajputana formed the Raja in reply to one of his letters that the conclusion of an alliance was incompatible with the principles which regulated the conduct of the British Government: "It is the fixed principle of the British Government not to interfere in the concerns of other States excepting only in the degree required by the positive and legal trea