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    236 THE STOBY OF AN INDIAN PRINCESS.

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    * The Press Has Teemed Of Late Years Wit...

    forth with all the greater lustre on account . of the inoral darkness around her . An Eastern Princess ! The very words seem a with

    sound from fairy-land , and associate themselves involuntarily " elfin godmothers , enchanted palaces Alia , and Bh supernatural adventures vision ;

    but fortunately for her country , ye was no fairy ; harmonious though the combination description of the her character and statecraft , uniting-, of as an it Elizabeth did , in energy

    of England with the saintl , y virtues of an Elizabeth of Hungary , might almost seem a dream of fancy the , statements were it not that incontro her

    vertible evidence p _\ its the truth of concerning remarkable beyond all doubt woman . - But was , in and order what to she give did a , clear it will view be of advisable what this to

    preface the account of her hy a slight sketch of the country slie governed Situated , and in its the previous heart history of . the great Indian peninsula , very

    fift Malwa y king , according doms into to -which its first India historian was divide Ferishta d at the ,, was earliest one period of tlie of Hindu government , but after the Mohammedan conquest it went continuallvariedand it

    throug almost h lost many its troubles rank as , a its distinct boundaries division of ancient y India , . At bi leng goted th , out and -wearied hypocritical by the Aurungzebe oppressions his and Hindu persecutions subjects invoked of the

    , the aid of the Hahrattas , under the leadership of their first celebrated chief Sevajeewho / called in as alliesere long became rulers ,

    enfeebled and gaining monarch a permanent to , concede footing to them in a fourth the , country part of , the forced revenue the from the inhabi

    he derived from it , which they collected regularly - tants whenever the royal dues were being paid ; any district which laid waste btheir all

    refused its contribution being forthwith y - conquering arms . the Mahrattas is that of Brahmand their

    of rank their The as reli associating regards gion of caste with is Brahmins very low , , thoug and thus h hig deriving h enoug a , h any to b admit enefit of their confer

    -which intercourse with the most intelligent race can _; wise while servances in their a of military sp the iritu hi al her inferiorit point orders of y view restrict is rather , for their while an movements advantage the ceremonial than and _occujDy other ob - - g

    much of their time ; the Mahratta who is free to eat when and what preliminary he and chooses keep himself devotion ( always always , or excepting ablution read , for thrice can action march hallowe . at A a strictl d moment beef y ) rural , 's without notice race , ,

    y and their herdsmen three great their division manners s being were only m those arked of by farmers a truly , p shep atriarchal herds , *

    housewives they simplicity may , rise mostl and , , their y the retained Bh richest yes even or and princesses in most the powerful hi glory ghest ing station of in their being to princes which good ;

    not disdaining on occasion to arrange a fire or prepare food witL . ;

    236 The Stoby Of An Indian Princess.

    236 THE STOBY OF AN INDIAN PRINCESS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1863, page 236, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061863/page/20/