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Malcolm’s Memoir of Central India (Abridged and Edited for the Use of Colleges and Schools)

1927

On the brink of this valley and on the edge of the plateau facing south walls of great strength were built which combined with the natural strength of the ground rendered the city unassailable by any but regular attack ; and this advantage which gave security to property together with the salbrity of the air abundance of water and the rich nature of the soil caused the new capital soon t [...] For years past the Delhi monarchs had reconised the rights of the southern invaders but only as the rights of powereful plunderers and a share of the revenues of the greater part of the empire had been allotted to them in the vain hope of purchasing safety for the remainder. [...] He was the nominal slave but the rigid master of the unfortunate Shah Alam emperor of Delhi ; the prtended friend but the designing rival ' of the house of Holkar ; the professed inferior in all matters of form but the real superior and oppressor of the Rajpat princes of Central India ; and the proclaimed champion but the actual plunderer of the family of the Peshwa. [...] On this occasion the actual sovereign of Hindustan the coqueror of the princes of Rajptitana the possessor of two thirds of Malwa and some of the finest provinces in the Deccan the commander of sixteen battalions of regular infantry five hundred guns and one hundred thousand horse when he went to pay his respects to the youth who held the office of Peshwa dismounted from his elephant at [...] But to reduce to the state of subjects the chiefs of Hindustan and Riiptitina and the petty Rajas of Central India he let loose all the irregular violence of his army ; and the proceedings of some of those he eployed to complete the subjugation of the Raipdts were marked by a spirit of rapacity and oppression seldom surpassed even in the annals of the Marathas.
education
Pages
168
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142817
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-vi C.H. Payne view
Chapter I Malwa
1-6 unknown view
Chapter II Early History
7-15 unknown view
Chapter III Rajputs and Marathas
16-23 unknown view
Chapter IV Maratha Invasion of Malwa
24-31 unknown view
Chapter V Madhaji Sindhia
32-40 unknown view
Chapter VI Malhar Rao Halkar
41-48 unknown view
Chapter VII Tukaji Rao and Ahalya Bai
49-59 unknown view
Chapter VIII War Between Jeswant Rao Holkar and Sindhia
60-70 unknown view
Chapter IX The Battle of Poona and the Second Maratha War
71-78 unknown view
Chapter X Last Days of Jaswant Rao
79-85 unknown view
Chapter XI Tulsi Bai
86-93 unknown view
Chapter XII The Third Maratha War
94-100 unknown view
Chapter XIII The Pindaris
101-115 unknown view
Chapter XIV The Bhopal State
116-124 unknown view
Chapter XV Nawab Wazir Muhammad Khan
125-132 unknown view
Chapter XVI The Siege of Bhopal
133-143 unknown view
Chapter XVII The Bhils
144-150 unknown view
Chapter XVIII Conclusion
151-158 unknown view
Index
159-162 unknown view

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