Identifier: imperialindiaar00prin (find matches)
Title: Imperial India; an artist's journals
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Prinsep, Val C. (Val Cameron), 1838-1904
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Publisher: London Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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etender mercies of the Zenana. She escaped to Poona, and therelived on the magnificent sum of thirty rupees a month, allowedby the English. Mulhar Raos subsequent proceedings all the world knows.How he fell a prey to the charms of Luxmee Bae, a woman oflow caste, and some one elses wife ; how he tried to poisonCol. Phayre, &c., &c. At last he was deposed. Then came thequestion of succession, and Jumna Bae was fetched from Poona,and thirty rupees a month, to assume the position of RaneeRegnant, and choose a Gaekwar. The present Gaekwar is heradopted son ; over him and the palace she rules supreme, andwhenever she goes out or in, it is amidst the cries of her servants, Wealth and happiness, Maharanee Sahib ! and to the sound of God save the Queen ! The Gaekwar himself is a thick-set lad of fifteen. At firsthe looks stupid and stolid, but when you talk to him youquickly perceive that, though not brilliant, he is far from un-intelligent. He has immense determination and energy. He
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p- 323 H.H. JUMNA BAE, xMAHAKANEE REGNANT OF BARODA. NO WSAREE-BOMBA V. 323 already speaks and reads English very well, and bids fair tobe quite a model chief. He conducts his sports with the sameenergy he displays at his work. I got up one morning to seehim wrestle. Wrestling, you must know, is a national weak-ness of the Gaekwars. Mulhar Rao spent prodigious sums onthis amusement. Under the frugal administration of Sir Mad-hava Rao, the present Regent, this establishment has been verymuch cut down. The principal paikvdn, or wrestler, has leftin disgust, but No. 2 still remains to teach the young Gaekwar.No. 2 is a very fine man, too beefy according to our ideas oftraining, but with enormous development of shoulders and thinflanks. His struggles with the Gaekwar were a most amusingexhibition. He groaned, as if with terrible effort; he allowedhimself to be thrown head over heels by the boy, and struggledludicrously in his boyish grasp. Then some of the smaller boyscame to have their l

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