the society in which they move, and the vengeance of the god they worship; and they are always well received in the society around them, as long as they can avoid having their neighbours annoyed by summons to give evidence for or against them in our courts.  They feel quite sure of the goodwill of the god they worship, provided they give a fair share of their booty to his priests; and no less secure of immunity from penal laws, except on very rare occasions when they happen to be taken in the tact, in a country where such laws happen to be in force.[12]

Notes: 

1.  December, 1835.

2.  Raja Parichhit died in 1839.

3.  The word gram (Cicer arietinum) is misprinted ‘grain’ in the author’s text, in this place and in many others.

4.  Bundelkhand exports to the Ganges a great quantity of cotton, which enables it to pay for the wheat, gram, and other land produce which it draws from distant districts, [W.  H. S.] Other considerable exports from Bundelkhand used to be the root of the Morinda citrifolia, yielding a dark red dye, and the coarse kharwa cloth, a kind of canvas, dyed with this dye, which is known by the name of ‘_ al_’.  But modern chemistry has nearly killed the trade in vegetable dyes.  The construction of railways and roads has revolutionized the System of trade, and equalized prices.

5.  Governor-General from October 4, 1813, till January 1, 1823.  He was Earl of Moira when he assumed office.

6.  Sir John Malcolm was Agent to the Governor-General in Central India from 1817 to 1822, and was appointed Governor of Bombay in 1827.

7.  The construction of railways and the development of trade with Europe have completely altered the conditions.  The Nerbudda valley can now yield a considerable revenue.

8.  The iron ore no doubt is good, but the difficulties in the way of working it profitably are so great that the author’s sanguine expectations seem unlikely to be fully realized.  V. Ball, in his day the best authority on the subject, observes, ’As will be abundantly shown in the course of the following pages, the manufacture of iron has, in many parts of India, been wholly crushed out of existence by competition with English iron, while in others it is steadily decreasing, and it seems destined to become extinct’ (Economic Geology (1881), being part of the Manual of the Geology of India, p. 338).  Ball thought that, if improved methods of reduction should be employed, the Chanda ore might be worked profitably.  As regards the rest of India, with the doubtful exception of Upper Assam, he had little hope of success.  Full details of the working of the mines in the Jabalpur, Narsinghpur, and Chanda districts of the Central Provinces are given in pp. 384 to 392 of the same work.  See also I.  G. (1908), vol. x, p. 51; and The Oxford Survey of the British Empire (Oxford, 1914), vol. ii, Asia, pp. 143, 160.  A powerful company formed at Bombay in 1907, operating at a spot on the borders of the Central Provinces and Orissa, hopes to turn out 7,000 tons of ‘steel shapes’ per month.