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Narrative of a voyage round the world, during the years 1835, 36, and 37 : including a narrative of an embassy to the Sultan of Muscat and the King of Siam, v.1 Page 187

Author:
Ruschenberger, W. S. W. (William Samuel Waithman)
Publication Info:
London: R. Bentley, 1838, pg 187

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BRITISH INDIA. 187 tion of the British Government. A specific force is furnished by the East India Company, and a territory equivalent to the maintenance of the troops ceded by the former. The subsidizing state is also bound to keep on foot a specific contingent force to act in subordinate co-operation with the subsidiary. The protecting power is not to interfere with the internal arrangements of the protected states \ but, in cases of exigency, it reserves the right, in general, to assume the whole of the resources of the protected state. The subsidiary foree is liable to be called out to protect the legal succession to power, but not to be employed between the head of the government and its zemindars, or chiefs. The following is given as a list of the Princes, the military protection of whose territories is undertaken by the British Government : Princes. Their Capitals. Ter. in sq. miles. King of Oude Lucknow 25,300 Soubahdar of the Deccan Hydrabad 108,800 H. H. the Quikwar Baroda 36,000 Sindia and others Gualior 42,400 Holkar and others Indore 17,600 Rajah of Nagpore Nagpore 62,270 Ras of Cutch Bhooj 6,100 Rajah of Mysore Mysore 29,750 Rajah of Travancore Travancore ) 9,400 Rajah of Cochin Cochin 5 Total population, 15,000,000.Total population, 15,000,000.
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