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The history of the British Empire in India
The history of the British Empire in India Author:George Robert Gleig Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VII. Affairs of Hindoslan—Seltlrmmls with Scindiah, Ameer Khan, and the Rajpoot princes—Breahing up of He Grand Army—Return of Sir Thomas Hislop to th... more »e South—Continued operation! against the Peishwah Appah Saheb—His treachery and flight—The Peish. wah endeavours to join him—Surrounded at Asseer- gurh and surrenders—Appah Saheb's operations Capture of Asseergurh—Escape of Appah Saheb— British Supremacy proclaimed — Settlement of the Country—Lard Hastings returns to Europe. It is necessary to advert, for a brief space, to the affairs of Hindostan, which were assuming all this while, from day to day, a more settled, as well as a much more satisfactory aspect. Overawed by the demonstrations o'f the Governor-General, Scindiah presumed not to violate, even in the most minute particular, the spirit of the treaty of Gwalior, while he readily assented to more than one innovation of which it was the tendency to promote the interests of the English at least as much as his own. In like manner, Ameer Khan, blending the chicanery of the outlaw with the prudence of a quiet citizen, steadily adhered to the engagements into which he had entered at the opening of the campaign. It was to no VOL. IV. F purpose that his turbulent chieftains—for the most part, rather the masters, than the servants of those under whose banners they marched—expressed their abhorrence of a connexion which, while it lessened their immediate influence, bade fair to cut off, in due time, all those sources of emolument to which they had been accustomed to look. Ameer, after deceiving them for as long a period as his own convenience seemed to require, suddenly withdrew from the camp, and taking refuge in a fortified town, left them to be dealt with as might appear most agreeable to the wishes of...« less