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 360 THE STATIONARY PERIOD and of a systematic policy in regard to her neighbours, the recognition, in fact, of her imperial duties and obli- gations. The Mohammedan states of Haidarabad and A TEMPLE AT GWAtlOR. Oudh were indebted for their survival to British pro- tection; they would have been destroyed, but for Eng- land's intervention, by fiercer and more vigorous rivals in the general scramble for dominion. Nevertheless, it