, Chapter 31, note 4).
3. This insurrection continued into the year 1833. 'The inhabitants
were reduced to the greatest distress, and have, even to the present
day, scarcely recovered the losses they then sustained' (_N.W.P.
Gazetteer_, vol. i (1870), p. 296).
4. See the author's _Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, passim_.
5. Partabgarh is now a separate district in the Fyzabad Division of
Oudh. The chief town, also called Partabgarh, is thirty-two miles
north of Allahabad, and still possesses a Raja, who, at present
(1914), is a most respectable gentleman, with no thoughts of
violence. Further details about the Partabgarh family are given in
the _Journey_, vol. i, p. 231.
6. Transcriber's note:- The author then uses the spelling 'Husain'
consistently.
7. 'The news department is under a Superintendent-General, who has
sometimes contracted for it, as for the revenues of a district, but
more commonly holds it in _amani_, as a manager. . . . He nominates
his subordinates, and appoints them to their several offices, taking
from each a present gratuity and a pledge for such monthly payments
as he thinks the post will enable him to make.
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