A History of the Mahrattas v2.c45.11
A History of the Mahrattas v2.c45.11
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¹ [The Government of India was not definitely bound by the treaty to assist the Nizām with troops; but ‘the Nizam had been led to expect protection and had earned it by his cession of Guntur’ in 1788. Dr. V. A. Smith (O.H.I., p. 574) describes Sir John Shore as ‘paralysed by a slavish obedience to the words of the Act of Parliament of 1784 and by unworthy fear of the Marāthās.’]