![]() My own official course during the last ten years has made me especially sensible of its importance. ![]() The importance of this question is ever pressing itself upon all who are connected with the Administration either of England or of India. Many items go to make up the sum of that prosperity but there is perhaps no one item in it all upon which more depends than upon a steady and full supply of the staple article of cotton wool. "Under a wise and just administration the people of Nagpore would materially aid in supplying a want upon the secure supply of which much of the manufacturing prosperity of England depends. He went on to give another explanation for its incorporation: And if that should be the case what justification could the Government of India hereafter plead for having neglected to exercise the power which it possessed to avert for ever from the people of Nagpore so probable and so grievous an evil" What guarantee can the British Government now find for itself or offer to the people of Nagpore that another successor will not imitate and emulate this bad example. So favoured and so aided he has nevertheless lived and died a seller of justice, a drunkard and a debauchee. Yet after little more than twenty years, this Prince descending to the tomb, has left behind him a character whose record is disgraceful to him alike as a sovereign and as a man. ![]() We handed it over to him with an excellent system of administration in full and practised operation with a disciplined and well paid Army with a full treasury and a contented people. For ten years, while he was yet a youth, we governed his country for him. His boyhood was trained under our own auspices an able and respected Princess was his guardian and the Regent of the State. "We set up a Rajah at Nagpore We afforded him every advantage a Native Prince could command. Lord Dalhousie on the Annexation of Nagpore Indian Mutiny, 1857 - 58: Primary Sources
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