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Notes:
1. December, 1835.
2. The author's remark that in India the roads are 'nowhere metalled'
must seem hardly credible to a modern traveller, who sees the country
intersected by thousands of miles of metalled road. The Grand Trunk
Road from Calcutta to Lahore, constructed in Lord Dalhousie's time,
alone measures about 1,200 miles. The development of roads since 1850
ha been enormous, and yet the mileage of good roads would have to be
increased tenfold to put India on an equality with the more advanced
countries of Europe.
3. _Ante_, Chanter 36, notes 26 & 27.
4. The Baiza Bai was the widow of Daulat Rao Sindhia. He had died on
March 21, 1827. With the consent of the Government of India, she
adopted a boy as his successor, but, being an ambitions and
intriguing woman, she tried to keep all power in her own hands. The
young Maharaja fled from her, and took refuge in the Residency in
October, 1832. In December of the same year Lord William Bentinck
visited Gwalior, and assumed an attitude of absolute neutrality. The
result was that trouble continued, and seven months later the
Maharaja again fled to the Residency.
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