The National Magazine New Series February 1899

59 the resident during the minority of Raghooji quoting the very Words of the Marquis of Hastings had also spoken of the restortion of Nagpore to its rank as one of the substantive power's of India."." In short the state of Nagpore was not conferred as grant or gift on the late Raja no new principality was created in his favour by the British Government but by its forbearance and favor h [...] Mansel informed Lord Dalhousie of the qualifications of the several " pretenders to the throne "observing at the same time that Appa Saheb " the son of Nana Aber Rao and grandson of the late Raja's sister would de-.cidedly be preferred by the mass of the courtiers to any other youth for the musnud whether given to him by adoption or by grant from the Company "—Papers Raja of Berrar 18 54. [...] The adoption of Appa Saheb though not done in the life time of the late Raja was still valid according to the laws and customs of the country when performed by the wirlowAppa Saheb was the grand nephew of the late Raja and next of his kin and the treaty guaranteed to him an.d to his "heirs and successors" the State of Nagpore in perpetuity. [...] " A company of sepoys was marched suddenly into the palace ; the whole of the property real and personal seized; th3 Company's seals put upon all the jewels and other valuable ; the soldiery were disarmed and in the most offensive way; the private estate of the Raja's mother of the estimated value of three lakhs a year was sequestered." Thus within a week from the date of the lapse -Lord Dalh [...] T!le scene opens with the close of those happy.days of festivity of the coronation of Rama the meteor to the family of Pulastya Pulastya-Kula-dhumaketuh to honor which all the friends of Rama the several Monkey-gods the Rakshasa cnieftains sages of the Brahman and the Kshtriya castes had gone to Ajodhya.