What they now enjoy they owe to their own industry and
integrity; and they are proud to serve a government which supplies
them with so many motives for honest exertion, and leaves them
nothing to fear, as long as they exert themselves honestly. To be in
a situation which it is generally understood that none but honest and
able men can fill[24] is of itself a source of pride, and the sons of
native princes and men of rank, both Hindoo and Muhammadan,
everywhere prefer taking office in our judicial and revenue
establishments to serving under native rulers, where everything
depends entirely upon the favour or frown of men in power, and
ability, industry, and integrity can secure nothing.[25]
Notes:
1. This can no longer be safely assumed as true. Newspapers now
penetrate to almost every village.
2. Fyzabad (Faizabad) was the capital for a short time of the Nawab
Wazirs of Oudh. In 1775 Asaf-ud-daula moved his court to Lucknow. The
city of Ajodhya adjoining Fyzabad is of immense antiquity.
3. In. the south of Oudh. It is not now a military station.
4. Monghyr (Munger) is the chief town of the district of the same
name, which lies to the east of Patna.
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