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'History of the Province of Gohud' [6r] (11/72)
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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where the annulling of the Treaty would not be his own act
and deed. In a word, where the wishes of the Government
correspond forcibly with the public necessity, difficulties such
as these are made to vanish."
It is but too apparent that this tortuous policy recom
mended by the Governor-General to the Government of Bom
bay, was adopted by himself in respect to the Maha Rana
of Gohud. The Treaty with that Prince was as great an ob
stacle to making peace with Scindiah as that of Futtey Singh
was to concluding peace with the other Mahratta Powers
at Poona. From the existing public records of that time, it
is clear that efforts were most assiduously made to get up
charges against the Rana, which might lead to the cancelling
of the Treaty, and at the same time make it appear that
" its annulling was his own act and deed." It must here be
remembered that the instructions of the Governor-General in
Council, directing Colonel Muir, then at Futteyghur, to pro
ceed with a force towards " Oojein," and to call upon the
Rana of Gohud to join him, were dated the 21st April 1781,*
and were not dispatched before the 27th of April, as that is
the date of the consultations when the despatch was finally
approved by the Council. In those early days, when the mails
were carried by foot-runners, when there were no roads, and
no bridges over water courses, far less larger rivers, and the
communications were most uncertain between distant parts
of the country, the despatch could not have reached Futtey
ghur, a distance of 600 miles, under three weeks at least,
or about the 15th of May at earliest. Colonel Muir reported
to the Commander-in-Chief that he had despatched " that
morning, agreeably to his instructions, a letter to the Rana of
Gohud," in which he demanded " a speedy performance of cer
tain engagements, entered into by the Rana with our Govern
ment, and to which I have requested his immediate and
direct answer."
This letter bears no date, but is recorded in the Govern-
* Ben. Govt. Cons., 27 th April 1781.
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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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