The British in India

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Macmillan, 1882 - 362 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 339 - Lethbridge. — A SHORT MANUAL OF THE HISTORY OF INDIA. With an Account of INDIA AS IT is. The Soil, Climate, and Productions ; the People, their Races, Religions, Public Works, and Industries ; the Civil Services, and System of Administration. By ROPER...
الصفحة 120 - His Excellency engages that he will establish in his reserved dominions such a system of administration (to be carried into effect by his own officers) as shall be conducive to the prosperity of his subjects, and to be calculated to secure the lives and property of the inhabitants...
الصفحة 86 - ... offensive and defensive alliance with the French, and proposes to maintain at his charge, as long as the war shall last in India, the troops which may be sent to him.
الصفحة 152 - A general bond of connection is now established between the British government and the principal states of India, on principles which render it the interest of every state to maintain its alliance with the British Government...
الصفحة 149 - Scindiah engages never to take or retain in his service any Frenchman, or the subject of any other European or American power, the Government of which may be at war with the British Government ; or any British subject, whether European or native of India, without the consent of the British Government.
الصفحة 321 - The high descent of the Ranee, her unbounded liberality to her troops and retainers and her fortitude, which no reverses could shake, rendered her an influential and dangerous adversary. The rebel army was composed of the Gwalior Contingent, the finest men, best drilled and organized native troops of all arms in India.
الصفحة 170 - to pursue schemes of conquest and extension of dominion in India, are measures repugnant to the wish, the honour, and the policy of the nation.
الصفحة 131 - It is a circumstance equally honourable to our character, and propitious to our interests in that quarter of India, that the first effects of the British influence in the Mahratta dominions should have been displayed in rescuing the capital of the empire from impending ruin, and its inhabitants from violence and rapine.
الصفحة 93 - Goffar, and many others of his chiefs, were also slain. Measures were immediately adopted to stop the confusion, at first unavoidable, in a city strongly garrisoned, crowded with inhabitants, and their property in ruins from the fire of a numerous artillery, and taken by assault. The princes were removed to camp. " It appeared to Major-General Baird so important to ascertain the fate of the...
الصفحة 156 - ... the house of Timur and his numerous family had so long laboured. Regulated by these principles and views, the attention of the British Government has been directed exclusively to the object of forming such an arrangement for the future support of the King and the Royal family, as might secure to them the enjoyment of every reasonable comfort and convenience, and every practicable degree of external state and dignity compatible with the extent of our resources, and with the condition of dependence...

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