Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v3.c42.s2.t1.180

v3.c42.s2.t1.180

Effects of the British Treaty.—There is not a shadow of doubt that the supplemental articles of the treaty of Kotah, which pledged our faith to two parties in a manner which rendered its maintenance towards both an impossibility, produced consequences that shook the confidence of the people of Rajwara in our political rectitude. They established two pageants instead of one, whose co-existence would have been miraculous; still, as a measure ought not to be judged entirely by its results, we shall endeavour to assign the true motive and character of the act.