Brahmans serving in the army sometimes take the title Singh, which is
more properly assumed by Rajputs or Sikhs.
6. An instance of such a prophecy, of a favourable kind, will be
found at the end of this chapter; and another, disastrously
fulfilled, in Chapter 21, _post_.
7. Riwa (Rewah) is a considerable principality lying south of
Allahabad and Mirzapore and north of Sagar. The chiefs are Baghel
Rajputs. The proper title of the Udaipur, or Mewar, chief is Rana,
not Raja. See 'Annals of Mewar', chapters 1-18, pp. 173-401, in the
Popular Edition of Tod's _Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan_
(Routledge, 1914), an excellent and cheap reprint. The original
quarto edition is almost unobtainable.
8. The masculine form of the word sati (suttee).
9. Well known to tourists as the seat of the Maharaja of Benares.
10. 'of' in text.
11. In the author's time no regular census had been taken. His rough
estimate was excessive. The census figures, including the
cantonments, are: 1872, 175,188; 1901, 209,331; 1911, 203,804.
12. This Benares story, accidentally omitted from the author's text,
was printed as a note at the end of the second volume.
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