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to say, the things that interested me most, while travelling in the districts, were the differences that I noticed there between Mahomedan and English rule. I came to the conclusion that the former is the most popular with Hindus, and chiefly so because it interferes the least with their customs and habits. In British India, Hindus are always being hustled by energetic young English civilians and "chartered hands," who want to have everything done in a hurry and done according to their own customs. But in His Highness's Dominions, Hindus are not interfered with, unless they do something very flagrant.

Now I feel sure that in British India the Irregular Forces, which are of little use and which cost His Highness's government annually 23! lakhs of rupees, would long ago have been abolished, and that the jagirdars would, many years before this, have been