cit., p. 84).
Akbar, in the seventh year of his reign (1562-3), compelled the Raja
of Riwa (Bhath) to give up Tansen, who was in the Raja's service. The
emperor gave the musician Rs. 200,000. 'Most of his compositions are
written in Akbar's name, and his melodies are even nowadays
everywhere repeated by the people of Hindustan' (Blochmann, op. cit.,
p. 406). Tansen died in A.D. 1588 (Beale).
5. Shah Alam is the sovereign alluded to. Mahadaji (Madhoji or
Madhava Rao) Sindhia died in February, 1794. His successor, Daulat
Rao, was then a boy of fourteen or fifteen (Grant Duff, _History of
the Mahrattas_, ed. 1826, vol. iii, p. 86). The formal adoption of
Daulat Rao had not been completed (ibid., p. 91).
6. This observation is a good illustration of the tendency of
administrators in a country so poor as India to take note of the
infinitely little. In Europe no one would take the trouble to notice
the difference between L60 and L62 rental.
7. Lord Auckland, in March, 1836, relieved Sir Charles Metcalfe, who,
as temporary Governor-General, had succeeded Lord William Bentinck.
8. The resumption, that is to say, assessment, of revenue-free lands
was a burning question in the anthor's day.
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