VI.--DESTRUCTION OF THE RAJAH OF SAHLONE.
I. That the late Nabob of Oude, Sujah ul Dowlah, did (on what reasons of
policy or pretences of justice is unknown) dispossess a certain native
person of distinction, or eminent Rajah, residing in the country of
Sahlone, "the lineal descendant of the most powerful Hindoo family in
that part of Hindostan," of his patrimonial estate, and conferred the
same, or part of the same, on his, the Nabob's, mother, as a jaghire, or
estate, for the term of her life: and the mother of the Nabob, in order
to quiet the country, and to satisfy in some measure the principal and
other inhabitants, did allow and pay a certain pension to the said
Rajah; which pension, on the general confiscation of jaghires, made at
the instigation of the said Warren Hastings, and by the letting the
lands so confiscated to farmers at rack-rents, was discontinued and
refused to be paid; and the discontinuance of the said pension, "on
account of the personal respect borne to the Rajah, (as connections with
him are sought for, and thought _to confer honor_,)" did cause an
universal discontent and violent commotions in the district of Sahlone,
and other parts of the province of Oude, with great consequent effusion
of blood, and interruption, if not total discontinuance, to the
collection of the revenues in those parts, other than as the same was
irregularly, and with great damage to the country, enforced by British
troops.
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