272 C.4PT. Franklin's Memoir on Bundelkhiind. 



Mahratta interests, and accordingly made overtures to the British Govern- 

 ment to assist in transferring the country to them ; and the circumstance of 

 the proposed' plan of the confederate Mahrattas indispensably requiring that 

 Bundelkhund should be occupied by British troops, as a measure of defence, 

 the proposal of Himmat Behadur was accepted ; and this is the origin of 

 the first occupation of Bundelkhund by British troops. 



Shortly after this transaction, the Peshwa proposed that the district of 

 Savanore, and other lands, which had been assigned by him to the British 

 instead of subsidy, should be restored to him ; and in lieu thereof, and also 

 as an equivalent for a regiment of cavalry, and other matters stipulated in 

 the supplemental articles of the treaty of Bassin, a portion of territory in 

 Bundelkhund to be selected from the conquests of An Behaduk, and 

 amounting to S6,l6,000 rupees per annum, should be ceded to the 

 Honourable Company ; and this proposal being acceded to, the British 

 thereby acquired a large portion of the province. 



It would require a detail of events, too lengthened for the limits of this 

 paper, to describe the course of policy, or the system of measures, which at 

 length tranquillized this distracted country, and introduced order and 

 peaceable habits amongst a race of men, who for years had experienced 

 nothing but the comfortless effects of anarchy and civil war : suffice it to 

 say, that the author of this paper having conducted a survey throughout 

 the whole of their territories, has witnessed the happy results of the system 

 which was pursued, and can feel a pleasure in recording them. 



In 1817 the Pes/m-a, by treaty, ceded to the Honourable East-India 

 Company all his rights, interests or pretensions, feudal, territorial or 

 pecuniary, in the province of Bundelkhund, including Sdgar, Jhdnsi, and 

 the lands held by Nana Govind Rao ; and agreed to relinquish all con- 

 nexion with the chiefs in that quarter. 



Thus terminated the authority of the Pesh'wa in Bundelkhund ; and the 

 only advantage which the British Government took of this cession in their 

 favour, was to require from Nana Govind Rao the cession of a small portion 

 of his territory, with a view to complete the frontier line ; and in return he 

 was constituted hereditary ruler of the remainder of his territory, and 

 released from the payment of tribute. The Subdddr o? Jhdnsi was confirmed 

 in all his possessions as heretofore ; but the chief of Sdgar, by open acts 

 of hostility, compelled the government to displace him, and occupy his 

 territory : the revenue of which, however, is applied partly in payment of a 



