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A Vindication of the Marquis of Dalhousie’s Indian Administration

1865

The Rajahs of those dependent principalities' died -wit1Tout male issue of their bodiebut each of them ' We took the first Rajah of Sattarah from the prison of the Peish.wa and elevated him to the throne as the Sattarah treaty.recites ' in consideration of the antiquity of ' his family. [...] Jn the '.time of our predecessors this was a source of profit to the treasury.' That the principle of this law was well known and established throughout India appears from the answers of the Residents at the ilifferent native Courts to an inquiry made by the trovernment of Dombay. [...] The Ranees of the late Rajah made no suggestion to the Government and were probably well content with the intentions of the Resident in favour of the Ranee Banka Baee.1 The question therefore for Lord Dalhousie's decision was not merely avlietfler he should reconstitute these lapsed dynasties but whether he should reconstitute thdin in favour of an aged lady tottering on the brick of the grave [...] Temple's„Report after the death of the senior widow at the clogethe year 1855 the Ranees adopted Appa Sahib And of course antedated his adoption but the report of theitesdent who was in communication with the Ranees after the Rajah's death and a petition of Banka Baee's were conclusive and Lord Canning refused to acknowledge Appa Sahib as the adopted son of the Rajah.24 ANNEX AT1QNS BY [...] If the effect of that letter was not well known in ligrowTee as I believe it was soon after it rhclied India the fact that the Government was taking pains to investigate the rights of the rival claimants and to ascertain the feelingg of the people respecting them must have satisfied every one that the question before the British Government was not annexation but succession —not the aestsuct
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SARF Document ID
sarf.145055
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Frontmatter
i-ii Charles Jackson view
Introduction
1-4 Charles Jackson view
Annexations by Lapse
5-43 Charles Jackson view
Kerowlee
44-50 Charles Jackson view
Nana Sahib’s Claims
51-64 Charles Jackson view
Act XI. of 1852
65-71 Charles Jackson view
Spoliation of the Nagpore Palace the Bhonsla Fund
72-81 Charles Jackson view
The Nawab of the Carnatic
82-105 Charles Jackson view
The Raj of Tanjore
106-116 Charles Jackson view
Annexation of Oude
117-157 Charles Jackson view
Military Proposals
158-170 Charles Jackson view
Conclusion
171-i Charles Jackson view

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