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THE

ASIATIC JOURNAL

FOR

JULY, 1824.

Original Communications,

&c. &c. &c.

GENERAL VIEW OF THE NATIVE POWERS OF INDIA ;
AND OF THEIR POLITICAL RELATIONS WITH

THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT.

(Continued from Vol.

On resuming our General View of the Native Powers of India, at the point at which we dismissed the subject in a former number, we find ourselves surrounded by a multiplicity of petty states, as incapable of interesting our readers by any thing remarkable in their individual character, as they are destitute of political importance, Collectively, however, they occupy a space in the general area, and must there fore be cursorily noticed.

These principalities are situated to the south of thRajpoot states, which have already occupied our attention, and extend neay from Hindia on the Nerbuddah to the province of Guzzerat. The principal among them are Dhar, Dewass, Banswarrah, Dongerpore, Purtaubghur, Ruttam, Seeta Mow, Ja booah, and Amjerah. Whether Mahratta, Rajpoot, Grassiah or otherwise, these states had been indiscriminately consigned to plunder, or doomed to afford shelter to freebooters, during the lawless periods that immediately preceded the successes of the British arms in this quarter. At length, however, Asiatic Journ.-No. 103.

XVII., page 364.)

they are placed, on the usual condi-
tions, under the protection of a power
that is able and willing to defend them.
The rights of the respective chiefs,
and the character of the natives, how-
ever varied and however peculiar, have
been carefully investigated under the
superintendence of Sir John Malcolm,
and such arrangements have been
made, in all instances, as to leave them
in the undisturbed possession of all
their privileges and customs, so far
as regards internal government, while
they are effectually protected against
foreign inroad and internal commotion,
The report which is furnished by Sir
John Malcolm himself, in his late in-
teresting work on Malwa, as to the
advantages already derived by these
states from the friendly interference of
the British Government, is most grati-
fying. Foreign mercenaries are dis-
banded, the natives have exchanged
their predatory courses for the
of peace and culture of the plains,"
population is rapidly increasing, and
towns and villages, which a few years
back presented a most gloomy picture
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