10. Few Europeans nowadays could join in the author's enthusiastic
admiration of the Datiya garden. The arrangements seem to have been
those usual in large formal native gardens in Northern India.
11. This lad has since succeeded his adoptive father as the chief of
the Datiya principality. The old chief found him one day lying in the
grass, as he was shooting through one of his preserves. His elephant
was very near treading upon the infant before he saw it. He brought
home the boy, adopted him as his son, and declared him his successor,
from having no son of his own. The British Government, finding that
the people generally seemed to acquiesce in the old man's wishes,
sanctioned the measure, as the paramount power. [W. H. S.] The old
Raja died in 1839, and the succession of the boy, Bijai Bahadur, thus
strangely favoured by fortune, was unsuccessfully opposed by one of
the nobles of the state. Bijai Bahadur governed the state with
sufficient success until his death in 1857. The succession was then
again disputed, and disturbances took place which were suppressed by
an armed British force.
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