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 teaching him to trust to strangers for his security; cruel and avaricious by showing him that he has nothing to fear from the hatred of his subjects. Wherever the subsidiary system is introduced, the country will soon bear the mark of it in the decaying villages, a decreasing population".

9. In every State which came under subsidiary alliance, its influence had the same baneful effect. The situation deteriorated to such an extent that the London Times in a leading article described it thus in 1853:—

10. During the period following the retirement of Lord Hastings, the influence of the Company over the internal administration of the States rapidly increased, and the Company's Residents got gradually "transformed from diplomatic agents representing a foreign power into executive and controlling officers of a superior Government". The Residents assumed so much of authority that Colonel Macaulay wrote to the Raja of Cochin:

Yet in spite of the increasing interference by the Company in the internal affairs of the States, little was done to mitigate the evils of the