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Excerpt from Exposition of the Practical Operation of the Judicial and Revenue Systems of India: And of the General Character and Condition of Its Native Inhabitants, as Submitted in Evidence of the Authorities in England; With Notes and Illustrations; Also a Brief Preliminary Sketch of the Ancient and Modern Boundries, and of the History of That Cou
At present, all the southern and eastern, as well as several of the western provinces of the empire, have gradually fallen into the possession of the English. The army they employed chie?y consisted of the natives of India, a country into which the notion of patriotism has never made its way. Those territories were in fact transferred to British possession from the rule of a number of the rebellious nobility. While the greatest part of the northern provinces beyond the river Sutlej has fallen into the hands of Runjeet singh, the chief of a tribe commonly called Sikhs.
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