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'History of the Province of Gohud' [31v] (62/72)
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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effort of your Lordship^ skill and energy will be required to
meet the accumulation of misfortunes." In reply* to the
Governor-General in Council, the Commander-in-chief, Lord
Lake, upon the 23d June 1805, stated his opinion that how
ever disposed the Governor-General in Council might feel
to make every arrangement his Excellency could, consistent
wiih pledged/aitk, to preserve the peace and conciliate the
Government of Dowlut Kao Scindiah, it would be impossible
to admit any negotiations whatever on such points as his
claims to Gwalior and Gohud, which could only tend to
generate further demands of an equally unreasonable nature."
Such were the views of the Govern or-General in Councilf
and of the Commander-in-chief respecting the untenable and
preposterous nature of Scindiah's claims to possess Gwalior
and Gohud. " There can be no doubt that had the Marquis
of Wellesley* continued as Governor-General that he would
have been able to coerce Scindiah, and secure a long if not a
permanent peace, without renouncing any of the advantages
his policy had secured by his successful negotiations and the
victories of the British forces, and the Rana of Gohud would
have remained in unmolested possession of his Highness's
hereditary possessions, secured to him by solemn treaties
and the good faith of the British Government." Unfortu
nately for the Rana, Lord Wellesley was, on the 30th July
1805—that is, six weeks after the date of the Commander-
in-chief's despatch of the 23d June 1804—succeeded by
the Marquis of Cornwallis as Governor-General. At this
time Scindiah openly broke the Treaty of Peace, and
joined Holkar and the Rajah of Bhurtphore in hostility
to the British Government. Scindiah first caused the
camp of the British Envoy, Mr Jenkins, to be plundered,
and then placed the Agent under restraint. Lord Lake,
the Commander-in-chief, threatened to commence hostilities
with Scindiah, and this threat would have probably proved
* Wellesley Papers, folio 13,426, para. 8, 23d June 1805.
+ Lord Wellesley. J Grant Duff's History of the Mahrattai.
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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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