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WBB 1HE STOEY OF d£K INDIAN PRINCESS.
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* The Press Has Teemed Of Late Years Wit...
the established cinief Af scene hans of his the his famil Mahrattas warlike y and exp government were _loits , forced it was . to Being in evacuate Centr at al last In the defeated dia Punj that aub b he y ,
arid Mulhar g who , was-one of the few vanquished who escaped , retreated his into hom Central e possessions , India , . and Perhaps henceforth it was little occup thoug ied himself ht at the in the tim settling e that
one of the most important events of his government was seeming previous the ly bride merel hi selected y story domestic no being account arrangement a whatever young of girl choosing is named iven a at Alia wife least for Bh b ye his y , European of onl whose y son ,, ;
writersall that is known of her early g life bein , g that before she had attained , the of twentshe lost her husband , who died
some years before age his father , y leaving his girlish widow with _, gobah one son the and uncle one and daug deput hter . of On the the reigning death Peishwa of Mulhar immediatel Rao , Bar y
sent to , Mallee Rao , Alia y Bhye's son , a dress of , honour , as a his recognition title to rule of his rig undisputed ht to succeed by man his grandfather Nature had , * denied but thoug him h
almost the capabilit like y a of doing was from so , the and annals the records of the , of imperi his brief al lunatic reign s seem who _, page
weak disgraced intellect the latter the days removal of the of Roman all restraint Empire . consequent Always of on rather his
that accession his conduct to the , supreme henceforward power , was had scarcel so injurious that an of a effect rational upon being him . ,
Malevolent as he was senseless , his great y delight was to play off malicious tricks upon Brahmins , often presenting them with robes tiles
or or sli offering ppers them in which as alms he had , pots previousl , seeming y hidden ly filled venomous with rupees rep , but , few
which really contained scorpions , only covered over with a thus coins , exposed which , bein themselves g eagerly to seized be severel by the y avaricious stung , their ascetics tormentor , they
the while looking and was heart his on always p , ious at onl seeing y mother lau particularl ghing his , who vice at y had them kind and a , special and to profanit hol rej y resp oicing y men ect woul dicants in for their d the lament , p Brahmins suffering ierced that to , ;
heaven had sent her a demon in the shap , e of a son . Utterly incapable of governing his kingdomor even himselfit was a
most fortunate circumstance that in , less than a year , after his elevation to royalty , he died ; his death indeed having been so
desirable an event that some even suspected afterwards that his mother might have hastened it , a charge with entirel the y without real facts founda of the
case tion , . as The was truth well-known was that to all he acquainted had in a fit of jealousy killed an embroidererwhom he had falsely supposed to have been guilty of
too great intimacy , with a female servant of his family , and it was further rumoured that the victim , believing himself to be endowed
with some supernatural power , had warned Mallee that he would
Wbb 1he Stoey Of D£K Indian Princess.
WBB 1 HE _STOEY OF d _£ _K INDIAN PRINCESS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1863, page 238, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061863/page/22/
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