he use of weapons has died out in most classes of the population.
The village forts have been everywhere dismantled. Robbery by armed
gangs still occurs in certain districts (_see ante_, Chapter 23, note
14), but is much less frequent than it used to be in the author's
days.

2. Many towns and villages bear the name of Mau (_auglice_, Mhow),
which may be, as Mr. Growse suggests, a form of the Sanskrit _mahi_,
'land' or 'ground'. The town referred to in the text is the principal
town of the Jhansi district, distinguished from its homonyms as Mau-
Ranipur, situated about east-south-east from Jhansi, at a distance of
forty miles from that city. Its special export used to be the
'kharwa' cloth, dyed with 'ai' (_see ante_., Chapter 31, note 4).

3. This insurrection continued into the year 1833. 'The inhabitants
were reduced to the greatest distress, and have, even to the present
day, scarcely recovered the losses they then sustained' (_N.W.P.
Gazetteer_, vol. i (1870), p. 296).

4. See the author's _Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, passim_.

5. Partabgarh is now a separate district in the Fyzabad Division of
Oudh. The chief town, also called Partabgarh, is thirty-two miles
north of Allahabad, and still possesses a Raja, who, at present
(1914), is a most respectable gentleman, with no thoughts of
violence. Further details about the Partabgarh family are given in
the _Journey_, vol. i, p. 231.

6. Transcriber's note:- The author then uses the spelling 'Husain'
consistently.

7. 'The news department is under a Superintendent-General, who has
sometimes contracted for it, as for the revenues of a district, but
more commonly holds it in _amani_, as a manager. . . . He nominates
his subordinates, and appoints them to their several offices, taking
from each a present gratuity and a pledge for such monthly payments
as he thinks the post will enable him to make. They receive from four
to fifteen rupees a month each, and have each to pay to their
President, for distribution among his patrons or patronesses at
Court, from one hundred to five hundred rupees a month in ordinary
times. Those to whom they are accredited have to pay them, under
ordinary circumstances, certain sums monthly, to prevent their
inventing or exaggerating cases of abuse of power or neglect of duty
on their part; but, when they happen to be really guilty of great
acts of atrocity, or great neglect of duty, they are required to pay
extraordinary sums, no