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'History of the Province of Gohud' [5r] (9/72)
The record is made up of 1 volume (36 folios). It was created in c 1843. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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make peace with the Mahratta nation, and so detach theln
from this coalition against the British Government. It is
to this sudden change of policy and views we are to look for
the causes which led the Governor-General to alter his con
duct towards the Rana of Gohud, and which resulted in the
ruin of our ally and the absorption of his dominions by
Scindiah. The Governor-General, it must be here noticed,
had at this time proceeded to Benares, exercising the full
powers of the Government in his own person, in order to
settle his differences with Cheyt Singh, the Rajah of that
province. Warren Hastings, thus relieved from the control
of his Council, was able to carry out arbitrarily his own views
without any remonstrances on the part of his colleagues in
the Government. The Governor-General, in forming the de
sign of conciliating Scindiah, had acted on the knowledge
that Scindiah's great aim and desire was to establish his
power on the ruins of the Mogul Empire. To enable him to
do so, however, it was first necessary that the Rana of Gohud
should be destroyed, and all his dominions lying between
Gwalior and the Jumna River, seized by Scindiah.* " With
out accomplishing these preliminary objects, Scindiah would
have been unable to avail himself of the favourable conjunc
ture presented to his ambition by the then disturbed state of
the Mogul Empire. To these designs, however, the existing
Treaty of the 2d December 1779, with the Rana of Gohud
and the British Government, proved a bar, as under its terms
the Rana was guaranteed in his ancestral possessions to
gether with the Fortress of Gwalior."
Under these circumstances, in order to meet Scindiah's
views, it became an object with the Governor-General, if
possible, to get rid of these stipulations solemnly binding the
British Government to protect the Rana. The policy fol
lowed by Warren Hastings for that end is to be explained
by a reference to the instructions addressed by him to the
* Ben. Govt. Progs., 20th July 1787. Colonel Kirkpatrick to
Lord Cornwallia.
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A published, printed history of the Province of Gohud [Gohad] written on or after 1843, which is the last date to appear in the history.
The history, although published, gives no details of its author or information on when or where it was published.
There are a small number of alterations that have been made in ink to the text, for which the author is unknown but is likely to have been Lewis Pelly.
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Foliation: The volume has been foliated in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. The foliation number has been enclosed with a circle.
The volume also has its own original printed pagination, starting on the inside of the front page with the number 2 and finishing on the inside of the second to last page with the number 70.
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