The treaty of November 18, 1817, recognized the then chief
Ramchand Rao, his heirs and successors, as hereditary rulers of
Jhansi. Ramchand Rao was granted the title of Raja by the British
Government in 1832, and died without issue on August 20, 1835
(_N.W.P. Gazetteer_, 1st ed., vol. i, p. 296). See _post_, Chapter
29.
29. The chiefs of Jalaun also were officers under the Maratha
Government of the Peshwa up to 1817. In consequence of gross
misgovernment, an English superintendent was appointed in 1838, and
the state lapsed to the British Government, owing to failure of
heirs, in 1840 (ibid. p. 229).
30. _Ante_ Chapter 23, note 13.
31. Lapse of years has increased the distance and the enchantment, so
that modern agitators and sentimentalists discover marvellous
excellences in the native Governments of the now remote past. The
methods of government in the existing native states have been so
profoundly modified by the influence of the Imperial Government that
these states are no longer as instructive in the way of contrast as
they were in the author's day.
32. The author consistently held the views above enunciated, and
defended the policy of maintaining the native states.
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