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others more powerful than they. The British government,
 for the most part, recognized and crystallized
the state of things existing on its attaining supremacy.
 Those, therefore, who were fortunate enough
to have attained to power at the moment of change
have in many instances become confirmed in the
territories under their sway,
The Peshwa, the Nizam, Scindia, and Holkar, and
many others, arose to eminence and position in this
way from small beginnings. Those who were foolish
=nough to resist the British at the time, or to raise
disturbances after the British ascended to power,
were crushed. The Nizam’s government was among
those which rightly gauged the change which had
come over the land, and the state of Hyderabad has
developed and flourished exceedingly. Sir Salar
Jung, one of the most enlightened native ministers,
controlled its destinies for over twenty-five years,
and raised it to its present eminence as one of the
best governed of native states. The Hyderabad territory
 covers an area of 98,000 square miles, and contains
 a population of nearly eleven millions. The
revenue is stated at over 400 lakhs of rupees. A
resident is attached to the Nizam’s court.
Mysore and Coorg are large and important states
in Southern India, which are well governed and flourishing.


The Central India States of Holkat and Scindia
also belong to the first order. A British agent of the