CHAPTER VIII 



WORK IN NATIVE STATES 



About one-third of the area of India but not one-third 

 of the population enjoys home rule, that is, it is not 

 directly under the British, but is ruled over by Indian 

 kings or Rajahs. Within the native kingdoms the policy 

 of the British is to interfere as little as possible. In 

 general it is only when negotiations with other states or 

 foreign governments are being carried on, that the Brit- 

 ish resident or adviser has anything to do, except in 

 cases of gross and palpable misrule when the British 

 government may suspend or dethrone the incompetent 

 king and put up some other member of the ruling family 

 who will give better government. 



The size of these kingdoms varies. Hyderabad, a Mo- 

 hammedan state, is 82,000 square miles in extent, slightly 

 larger than Minnesota, with a population of 13,000,000, 

 a large majority of whom are little better than serfs. 



Jodhpur, famous as having given to the world the 

 Jodhpur riding breeches which polo players and other 

 horsemen wear, is 40,000 square miles in extent, about 

 the size of Ohio, mostly desert. In Jodhpur are the 

 famous white marble quarries from which the marble 

 was taken across the desert to build the Taj Mahal at 

 Agra, and how it was transported still remains a mys- 

 tery. 



Mysore, where the famous Kolar gold mines are, is 



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