Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2011
This question appears to have been first seriously agitated in 1826, in consequence of a reference from the Acting Political Agent in Meywar, Capt. Sutherland, to Sir C. Metcalfe, regarding certain Grasya chiefs of the Hill principalities, nominally independent, but from whom allegiance was claimed by the Oodeypore Government.
180 page note 1 Tod, Vol. I., p. 10.Google Scholar
180 page note 2 Ibid. p, 224.
180 page note 3 Ibid.
187 page note 1 This Article has become especially necessary, as the inferior chiefs, particularly those of the third class, had amalgamated themselves with the head of the clans, to whom they had become more accountable than to their prince.
187 page note 2 This alludes to the treaty which the chief has formed, as Ambassador to the Rana, with the British Government.
187 page note 3 An, oath of allegiance. Tod, Vol. I., p. 172.Google Scholar
189 page note 1 Tod, Vol. I., p. 11.Google Scholar