Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v3.c43.t1.68

v3.c43.t1.68

If the facts I have collected are confirmed on inquiry, the late measures of Government,¹ in whatever motives originating, will only augment the mischief. Even admitting their expediency in protecting our Patna monopoly, and their justice as affecting the native governments (the contractors and cultivators of the drug), still other measures might have been devised, equally efficacious in themselves, and less pregnant with evil consequences.