Empire in Asia How We Came By It a book of Confessions
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What if the vital spirit of the compact may be evaporated in the alembic of a capricious and unscrupulous experimentalist ? What if public faith should one day be declared to be like a tenant's improve- ment, whereof the benefit is held to expire by the efilux of time ? This, and nothing less, is the gist of the doctrine of lapse to the Crown, on default of heirs in taU male, re- cently set up and acted on, with regard to other governing families in India, Threatening notice has not yet, indeed..., been served at Gwalior, and the instinct of self-preservation forbids the utterance of misgiving. But after what we have seen done and attempted elsewhere, it would be idle to afiect disbelief in the existence of cankerous fears, in every Native State of sufiicient importance to be coveted as food for annexation. In 1817, Holkar's numerous and irregular forces, dur- ing the long minority af their Prince, had become mutinous, ' Memoirs of Central India, vol. i. p. 141. THE PEISHWA. 285 and the Durbar presided over by Toolsah Bai, the favour- ite mistress of the deceased chief, and guardian of his son, was rent by personal feuds and enmities.
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