The Translation and Comment

 by 

Mohammed Q, Binghalib:

 of Original Document:

 

 

THE FRIEND OF INDIA STATESMAN  -1835–76 The Friend of India. 1877–83 The Friend of India, and Statesman.   Serampore, West Bengal, India.

 

               A serious resistance in another province had been previously suppressed. Tantia Topee, the Marhatta leader, after his defeats atCal- i pee and in Gwalior fled into Central India,l and essayed to cross the Nerbudda and reach the Marhatta provinces. The Born. bay Government, however, acting with the energy which distinguishes Lord Elphinstone under all circumstances important enough to rouse him to exertion, turned out six or eight flying columns in pursuit. Tantia doubled and fled, and fled and doubled, outmarched our troops in the proportion of three to one, raised a new levy every month, and contrived to save his treasure while traveling seventy miles a day, but all in vain. He could never cross the Nerbudda, and his wanderings incommoded only the group of petty states lying between' Scindia's dominion and Borni,:iy. At last even this territory .became too dangerous, and Tantia fled to the desert of Bikaneer. There he received no assistance, his followers dwindled away, the country afforded neither foragn nor water, and sending his men once more into Bundeleund, Tantia took to the jungles. On 7th April he was betrayed by Mann Singh, a petty chief of Central India, tried for rebellion, and hanged, the one leader whose conduct and career excited the slightest sympathy among Europeans. It seems probable that fie a coward. Me was cerfainlji no in-: neral, but he understood the only true principles of Asiatic warfare, and with him died the last vestige of hope for the insurgents. There have been disturbances since in Bundelkhand and Central India. Marauding bands have committed murders, and Feroze Shah has contrived to cover daeoity by an appearance of rebellion. But the political importance of these disturbances, annoying and costly as they may still be, ended with the life of the Marhatta moneychanger.