r_, 1st ed.,
vol. viii, p. 94.)

16. Modern India shows little appreciation of good art, and the
paintings ordinarily executed for decorative purposes are as crude as
those described by the author. A school of clever artists in Bengal
is doing something to raise the public taste. The high merit of the
ancient Indian paintings at Ajanta and elsewhere is now fully
recognized. A great revival of pictorial art took place about A.D.
1570 in the reign of Akbar. From that date the Indo-Persian and
Indian schools of painting maintained a high standard of excellence,
especially in portraiture, for a century approximately. During the
eighteenth century marked deterioration may be observed. See _A
History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon_, Oxford, 1911.

17. The Jats detest Brahmans. The members of a Jat deputation
complained one day to the editor when in the Muzaffarnagar district
that they suffered many evils by reason of the Brahmans.

18. The author's meaning seems to be that building tombs is not an
old Hindoo usage.

19. Sivaji, the indomitable opponent of Aurangzeb in the Deccan,
belonged to the agricultural Kunbi caste. He was born in May A.D.
1627, and died in April 1680. The Brahman ministers of the Rajas of
Satara were known by the title of Peshwa. Baji Rao I, who died in
1740, the second Peshwa, was the first who superseded in actual power
his nominal master. The last of the Peshwas was Baji Rao II, who
abdicated in 1818, after the termination of the great Maratha war,
and retired to Bithur near Cawnpore. His adopted son was the
notorious Nana Sahib. The Marquis of Hastings, in 1818, drew the Raja
of Satara from captivity, and re-established his dignity and power.
In 1839 the Raja's treachery compelled the Government of India to
depose him. His territory is now a district of the Bombay Presidency.
See Mankar, _The Life and Exploits of Shivaji_, 2nd ed., Bombay,
Nirnayasagar Press, 1886.

20. The Raja of Berar, also known as the Raja of Nagpur, was called
the Bhonsla. The misrule of Gwalior has been described _ante_, in
chapters 36 and 49. The condition of Gwalior and Indore, the capitals
of Sindhia and Holkar respectively, is now very different. The
Bhonsla has vanished.

21. Since the annexation of the Panjab in 1849, the Sikhs have justly
earned so much praise as loyal and gallant soldiers, the flower of
the Indian army, that their earlier less honourable reputation has
been effaced, Captain Francklin, writ