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Mss Eur F213/24, p129
- Record Id:
- 041-002301845
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002301764
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001953.0x0002fc
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur F213/24, p129
- Title:
- Letter from Dalhousie to Hobhouse
- Scope & Content:
- War is now over; flight of Dost Muhammad; justifies his annexation of Punjab without waiting for instructions from home on grounds that it was falling into anarchy; failure to act would have meant loss of revenue and of authority; has sent despatch explaining why whole of Punjab must be taken, which has been written 'in heat, haste, dust and influenza'; if Government and Court think it wrong there is no 'physical impossibility' in its reversal; reversal will disgrace Dalhousie to which he will quietly submit, believing that events would vindicate him in a very few years; believes that 'as an honest statesman and an English Gentleman, you would despise the suggestion … of calling the Punjab independent still, but making it by our acts virtually our own' [emphasis in original] … I adjure you by the honourable reputation of our name not to do it by a shuffle'; declares purity of his motives and belief in 'absolute necessity' of annexation 'for the safety of our own state. I have given my reasons in my dispatch. Judge ye.'; terms of treaty negotiated by Elliot drawn up by Dalhousie and modelled on document signed by Peshwa in 1818; regret concerning it shown by two Lawrences whom, 'principally in reference to the past' [emphasis in original], Dalhousie had previously placed at head of new Govt; justifies confiscation o crown property and surrender of Koh-i-noor diamond to Queen – 'The Koh-i-noor has become in the lapse of ages a sort of historical Emblem of Conquests in India. It has now found its proper resting place'; stipends given Maharaja Duleep Singh, widows of Ranjit Singh, &c; comments on fate of Duleep; acknowledges Hobhouse's letter of 24 February, but will not reply immediately because of the heat; unreasonable expectation at home (not shared by Wellington) that fall of citadel at Multan should have immediately followed fall of city; will write more on Punjab future by next mail – 'Don't you funk! If the country is made ours, it is our own fault if there ia any more war in the Punjab. Men can't make war with their finger nails: and if you will only let me, I will take care that even those shall be pared close '; encloses letter to Queen.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Private Papers
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002301764
036-002301791
040-002301832
041-002301845 - Is part of:
- Mss Eur F213 : Papers of John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton, as President of the Board of Control 1835-41 and 1846-52
Mss Eur F213/21-28 : John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton, President of the Board of Control 1846-52: correspondence with persons in India and…
Mss Eur F213/24 : Letters from persons in India and elsewhere. Principal correspondents: Lord Dalhousie; Lord Falkland, Sir Henry Pottinger.…
Mss Eur F213/24, p129 : Letter from Dalhousie to Hobhouse - Hierarchy:
- 032-002301764[0008]/036-002301791[0004]/040-002301832[0013]/041-002301845
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Mss Eur F213
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1849
- End Date:
- 1849
- Date Range:
- 7 Apr 1849
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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