On the night of November 17, General Lake in person routed Holkar and his cavalry, killing about three thousand men.  The English loss on this occasion amounted to only two men killed, and about twenty wounded.

The fort of Dig, with a hundred guns and a considerable quantity of ammunition and military stores, was captured on December 24 of the same year. (Thornton, History of British India, pp. 316-19, 2nd ed., 1859.)

5.  Transcription note.  This clause is not intelligible to the transcriber.  The character ‘1’ or ‘I’ appears in the text.  Some words appear to be missing.

6.  The author was grievously mistaken in supposing that India did not require ‘a particle’ of foreign capital.  The railways, and the great tea, coffee, indigo, and other industries, built up and developed during the nineteenth century, and still growing, owe their existence to the hundreds of millions sterling of English capital poured into the country, and could not possibly have been financed from Indian resources.  The author seems not to have expected the construction of railways in India, although when he wrote a beginning of the railway system in England had been made.

7.  This sentiment is still potent, and explains the eagerness often shown by wealthy landholders of high social rank to obtain official appointments, which to the European mind seem unworthy of their acceptance.

8.  Few readers are likely to accept this proposition.

9.  This clause is not intelligible to the editor.  The word ‘revenue’ probably is a misprint for ‘aristocracy’.

10.  The original edition prints, ’No man considers himself less respectable’, which is nonsense.

11.  This sentiment reads oddly in these days of social democracy and continual conflict between capital and labour.

12.  The steady progress of Islam in Lower and Eastern Bengal, first made apparent by the census of 1872, has been confirmed by the enumerations of 1901 and 1911.  The feeling that the religion of the Prophet gives its adherent a better position in both this world and the next than Hinduism can offer to a low-caste man is the most powerful motive for conversion.  See Dr. James Wise’s valuable treatise, ‘The Muhammadans of Eastern Bengal’ (J.A.S.B., Part III (1894), pp. 28-63), and the Census Reports from 1872 to 1911.

13.  The author’s whimsical notion that a development of commercial and manufacturing organization in India would cause converts to flock from all parts, and from all classes of the Hindoo community, has not been verified by experience.  Much capital is now concentrated in the great cities, and the number of cotton, jute, and other factories is considerable, but Christian converts are not among the goods produced.

14.  The modern commercial houses bring a large proportion of their capital from Europe.