The Native States of India: An Attempt to Elucidate a Few of the Principles which Underlie Their Relations with the British Government, Partie 36Priv. Press, 1881 - 51 pages |
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¹ Tr administration alliance armaments army Article artillery authority Baroda battalions of sepoys Bheel Bhopal bound British Government British subjects British supremacy British troops cantonments Cavalry ceded cession circumstances concluded conquest consent Contingent corps danger defence Delhi Deolee discharge districts dominions duties East India Company Empire engagements European exercised expressly external feudal feudatories Foreign Powers forts furnish Gaekwar guns Gwalior head-quarters Holkar horse Hyderabad independent Infantry interests interference internal government international law Irregular Force Jeypore Jodhpur jurisdiction Kattywar Kotah lakhs of Rupees limited Maharaja maintained Malwa ment military police corps Muscat mutiny Mysore Native Chiefs Native Government Nawab negotiations neighbours Nepal Nizam obligation Oodeypoor Oudh Paramount Power payment peace Peshwa Pindari war political possession Power in India protection Rajpootana regiments regulated relations rule Ruler sepoys Sikh sovereign stipulations subordinate isolation Subsidiary Force supreme power territories tion Travancore Treaty of 1800 Treaty of 1818 tribute Vattel
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Page 10 - East India Company are by us accepted and will be scrupulously maintained, and we look for the like observance on their part. "We desire no extension of our present territorial possessions and while we will permit no aggression upon our dominions or our rights to be attempted with...
Page 41 - Government served as break-waters to the storm which would otherwise have swept over us in one great wave ; and in quiet times they have their uses.
Page 41 - British Districts) it was not in the nature of things that our Empire should last fifty years; but that if we could keep up a number of Native States without political power, but as royal instruments, we should exist in India as long as our naval supremacy was maintained. Of the substantial truth of this opinion I have no doubt; and the recent events have made it more deserving of our attention than ever.
Page 8 - ... to protect the principality and territory of Oudeypore. ARTICLE 3. The Maharana of Oudeypore will always act in subordinate co-operation with the British Government, and acknowledge its supremacy and will not have any connection with other Chiefs or States. ARTICLE 4. The Maharana of Oudeypore will not enter into any negotiation with any Chief or State without the knowledge and sanction of the British Government; but his usual amicable correspondence with friends and relations shall continue.
Page 29 - If, contrary to the spirit and object of this defensive treaty, war with any state should hereafter appear unavoidable (which God avert), the contracting parties will proceed to adjust the rule of partition of all such advantages and acquisitions as may eventually result from the success of their united arms. It...
Page 21 - The portion of sea actually occupied by a fleet riding at anchor is within the dominion of the nation to which the fleet belongs so long as it remains there; that is, for all purposes of jurisdiction over persons within the limits of the .space so occupied.
Page 37 - In the second place, we cannot disregard the fact that the general clause which occurs in many of the treaties to the effect that the Chief shall remain absolute Ruler of his country has not in the past precluded and does not even now preclude " interference with the administration by Government through the agency of its representatives at the Native Courts.
Page 8 - The British Government engages to protect the principality and territory of Bikaner. ARTICLE 3 Maharaja Soorut Sing and his heirs and successors will act in subordinate co-operation with the British Government and acknowledge its supremacy, and will not have any connection with any other Chiefs or States.
Page 36 - Behauder hereby promises to pay at all times the utmost attention to such advice as the Company's Government shall occasionally judge it necessary to offer to him, with a view to the economy of his finances, the better collection of his revenues, the administration of justice...
Page 23 - And whereas the British Government is bound by Treaty to protect the person of His Highness the Maharajah, his heirs and successors, and to protect his dominions from foreign invasion, and to quell serious disturbances therein...