had died four years before him, in 1811, leaving one son, the late Raja, and two daughters.  This was a noble sacrifice to what he had been taught by his spiritual teachers to consider as a duty towards his family; and we must admire the man while we condemn the religion and the priests.  There is no country in the world where parents are more reverenced than in India, or where they more readily make sacrifices of all sorts for their children, or for those they consider as such.  We succeeded in [June] 1817 to all the rights of the Peshwa in Bundelkhand, and, with great generosity, converted the viceroys of Jhansi and Jalaun into independent sovereigns of hereditary principalities, yielding each ten lakhs of rupees. [W.  H. S.] The statement in the note that Raghunath Rao I ’went to Benares in 1795 to drown himself’ is inconsistent with the statement in the text that this event happened ‘some twenty years ago’.  The word ‘twenty’ is evidently a mistake for ‘forty’.  The N.  W. P. Gazetteer, 1st ed., names several persons who governed Jhansi on behalf of the Peshwa between 1742 and 1770, in which latter year Raghunath Rao I received charge.  According to the same authority, Sheo (Shio) Ram Bhao is called ’Sheo Bhao Hari, better known as Sheo Rao Bhao’, and is said to have succeeded Raghunath Rao I in 1794, and to have died in 1814, not 1816.  A few words may here be added to complete the history.  The leper Raghunath Rao II, whose claim the author strangely favoured, was declared Raja, and died, as already noted, in May, 1838, ’his brief period of rule being rendered unquiet by the opposition made to him, professedly on the ground of his being a leper’.  His revenues fell from twelve lakhs (L120,000) to three lakhs of rupees (L30,000) a year.  On his death in 1838, the succession was again contested by four claimants.  Pending inquiry into the merits of their claims, the Governor-General’s Agent assumed the administration.  Ultimately, Gangadhar Rao, younger brother of the leper, was appointed Raja.  The disorder in the state rendered administration by British officers necessary as a temporary measure, and Gangadhar Rao did not obtain power until 1842.  His rule was, on the whole, good.  He died childless in November, 1853, and Lord Dalhousie, applying the doctrine of lapse, annexed the estate in 1854, granting a pension of five thousand rupees, or about five hundred pounds, monthly to Lacchhmi Bai, Gangadhar Rao’s widow, who also succeeded to personal property worth about one hundred thousand pounds.  She resented the refusal of permission to adopt a son, and the consequent annexation of the state, and was further deeply offended by several acts of the English Administration, above all by the permission of cow-slaughter.  Accordingly, when the Mutiny broke out, she quickly joined the rebels.  On the 7th and 8th June, 1857, all the Europeans in Jhansi, men, women, and children, to the number of about seventy persons, were cruelly murdered by her orders, or with her sanction.  On the 9th June her authority was proclaimed.  In the prolonged fighting which ensued, she placed herself at the head of her troops, whom she led with great gallantry.  In June, 1858, after a year’s bloodstained reign, she was killed in battle.  By November, 1858, the country was pacified.