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Factors in the Marquis Wellesley's failure against Holkar, 1804

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

A. S. Bennell
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‘Our policy and our powers have reduced all the powers in India to the state of mere cyphers: at the same time that their intriguing, discontented and rebellious followers still remain, with increased causes of discontent, diminished sources of profit and field for speculation and plunder. Nothing can keep these people in order excepting the Company's arms or a complete state of defence at all points which they can reach. The Company's arms cannot be everywhere ….’

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , October 1965 , pp. 553 - 581
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1965

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References

1 Shawe to Arthur Wellesley, 11 December 1803, Wellesley Papers, British Museum Additional Manuscript 13778, fol. 49 (cited as Add. MS). Arthur Wellesley to Shawe, 14 January 1804, Despatches of … Wellington, ed. Lt.-Col. Gurwood, London, 1837, ii, 664, 1844, n, 969 (cited as Grwd.). Spellings of place-names and Indian words in quotations have been regularized throughout.Google Scholar

2 Arthur Wellesley, mem. of 7 January 1804, Grwd., 1837, ii, 631, 1844, ii, 945.

3 Malcolm to Shawe, 22 January 1804, Add. MS 13747, fol. 26. Malcolm writes that Arthur Wellesley has explained ‘that by a letter from you he understands that Lord Wellesley is anxious to have the subsidiary corps with Sindhia’.

4 Malcolm to Governor-General, 12 January 1804, Poona Residency correspondence, Bombay, x, 1951, 196 (cited as PRC); Malcolm to Arthur Wellesley 12 January 1804, Add. MS 13747, fol. 20, copy sent to Shawe marked by Lord Wellesley ‘for Sir G. Barlow´s perusal’.Google Scholar

5 Malcolm to Arthur Wellesley, 19 January 1804, (Nottingham University Library) Bentinckcirc; Papers, F. 39, p. 30 (cited as NUL); Malcolm to Shawe, 22 January 1804, Add. MS 13747, fol. 26; Malcolm to Governor-General, 30 January 1804, PBC, X, 196; Malcolm to Bentinck, 1 February 1804, Kaye, Malcolm, I, 247, and NUL, F. 39, p. 48; Malcolm to Bentinck, 8 February 1804, NUL, F. 39, p. 56; Malcolm to Governor-General, 27 February 1804. Add. MS 13747, fol. 96.

6 Malcolm to Governor-General, 30 January 1804, PRC, x, 196.

7 Malcolm to Governor-General, 6 February 1804, PRO, x, 199; Malcolm to Shawe, 6 February 1804, Add. MS 13747, fol. 41.

8 Malcolm to Shawe, 15 February 1840, Add. MS 13747, fol. 58.

9 Malcolm to Governor-General, 17 February 1804, Selections from the Nagpur Residency records, Nagpur, 1950, i, 381Google Scholar. The chiefs granted pensions are listed ibid., 385.

10 Malcolm to Arthur Wellesley, 20 February 1804, Add. MS 13747, fol. 80, and Kaye, Malcolm, I, 249. Some anonymous undated comments, probably by Malcolm, on the counterproposals are given in PBC, x, 228, enclosure accompanying Malcolm to Governor-General, 18 March 1804.

11 The treaty, 27 February 1804, PRC, x, 278; Malcolm to Dowdeswell, 27 February [1804] NUL, F. 39, p. 78; Malcolm to Shawe, 27, 28 February 1804, Add. MS 13747, fols. 98, 108; Malcolm to Governor-General, 28 February 1804, PEG, x, 219; Malcolm to Arthur Wellesley, 1 March 1804, Add. MS 13747, fol. 104.

12 Lake to Lord Wellesley, 28 December 1803, Martin, Despatches of the Marquis Wellesley, London, 1836–1897, iii, 556 (cited as Martin).Google Scholar

13 Lord Wellesley to Lake, 17 January 1804, Martin, iv, 3.

14 Arthur Wellesley to Governor-General, 31 January 1804, Supplementary despatches of the Duke of Wellington, London, 1858, iv, 334 (cited as SD).Google Scholar

15 Malcolm to Arthur Wellesley, 3 February 1804, Add. MS 13747, fol. 37.

16 Arthur Wellesley to Governor-General, 18 March 1804, Grwd., 1837, in, 171, 1844, n, 1108.

17 Governor-General to Lake, 16 April 1804, Parl. Papers, [19 June 1806], 302; Martin, rv, 57; Governor-General to Arthur Wellesley, 16 April 1804, Parl. Papers, [19 June 1806], 313; Apsley House Wellington Papers (India), 54 (cited as AH MS). Quoted by permission of the Duke of Wellington.

18 Shawe to Malcolm, 16 April 1804, Add. MS 13602, fol. 90 (draft); Parl. Papers, [19 June 1806], 303.

19 Shawe to Malcolm, 25 April 1804, Add. MS 13602, fol. 114.

20 Malcolm, ‘Hints for a memorandum on the present state of India’, 6 April 1804, Add. MS 13747, fol. 121; NUL, F. 39, p. 11.

21 Webbe to Arthur Wellesley, 17, 20, 27 April, 2 May 1804, AH MS 10.

22 Arthur Wellesley to Webbe, 20 April 1804, SD, iv, 373; to Malcolm, 20 April 1804, Grwd., 1837, in, 231, 1844, n, 1150; to Lake, 23 April 1804, Parl. Papers, [19 June 1806], 304, and Grwd., 1837, m, 235, 1844, II, 1154; to Webbe, 23 April 1804, SD, iv, 376; to Murray, 30 April 1804, Grwd., 1837, iii, 246, 1844, ii, 1161.

23 Malcolm to Bentinck, 24 April 1804, NUL, F. 39, p. 98; to Lake, 28 April 1804, Add. MS 13747, fol. 237; to Governor-General, 2 May 1804, PRO, xi, 1943, 4.

24 Lake to Governor-General, 22 April 1804, Add. MS 13742, fol. 173.

25 Lake to Wellesley, 29 April 1804, Martin, iv, 58; Sydenham to Bentinck, 12 May 1804, Add. MS 13633, fols. 130, 141; NUL, F. 6, fol. 41.

26 Mercer to Malcolm, 30 April 1804, AH MS 10.

27 Malcolm to Mercer, 2, 9 May 1804, Add. MS 13747, fols. 253, 250; to Shawe, 10 May 1804, ibid., fol. 244.

28 Arthur Wellesley to Murray, Resident with Sindhia, Shawe, 7 May 1804, Grwd., 1837, iii, 257, 260, 262, 1844, ii, 1168, 1171, 1172; Parl. Papers, [19 June 1806], 306; SD, iv, 381.

29 Arthur Wellesley to Henry Wellesley, 13 May 1804, SD, iv, 383; cf. Arthur Wellesley to Malcolm, 18 April 1804, Grwd., 1837, iii, 228, 1844, ii, 1148.

30 Lake to Malcolm, 9 May 1804, A H MS 10; Mercer to Malcolm, 9 May 1804, ibid.; Holkar to Lake, n.d., rec. 8 May 1804, Parl. Papers, [19 June 1806], 308; Lake to Holkar, 9 May 1804, ibid.

31 Mercer to Malcolm, 12, 13, 16 May 1804, AH MS 10.

32 Shawe to Arthur Wellesley, 7 May 1804, Add. MS 13778, fol. 85; Wellesley to Bentinck, 10 May 1804, Add. MS 13633, fol. 75; Sydenham to Bentinck, 10, 12, 19 May 1804, NUL, F. 6, fols. 35, 41, 55; Add. MS 13633, fols. 139, 141; Shawe to Arthur Wellesley, 23, 25 May 1804, Add. MS 13778, fols. 90, 98; Governor-General to Lake, Arthur Wellesley, 25 May 1804, PRC, xi, 15; Martin, iv, 67.

33 Webbe to Arthur Wellesley, 15 May 1804 (two letters), AH MS 10.

34 Webbe to Arthur Wellesley, 16, 17 May 1804, AH MS 10; memorandum by Sindhia's court 16 May 1804, PRO, xi, 11; memorandum by Webbe to Sindhia's court, 17 May 1804, AH MS 10.

35 Webbe to Arthur Wellesley, 21 May 1804; Webbe to Governor-General, 21 May 1804, AH MS 10.

36 Webbe to Arthur Wellesley, 22, 23 May 1804, AH MS 10; Webbe to Governor-General, 23 May 1804, ibid., and PBC, xi, 15; Webbe to Sydenham, 24 May 1804, Add. MS 13770 fol. 82.

37 Webbe to Arthur Wellesley, 27, 30, 31 May 1804, AH MB 10; Webbe to Governor-General, 31 May 1804, ibid., and PEC, xi, 21; to B. Sydenham, 1 June 1804, Add. MS 13770, fol. 88.

38 Webbe to Arthur Wellesley, 31 May 1804, AH MS 10; to Lake, 4 June 1804, ibid., and PRC, xi, 24; to Arthur Wellesley, 6 June 1804, AH MS 10.

39 Webbe to Arthur Wellesley, 8, 11 June 1804, AH MS 10; to Governor-General, ibid., and PRC, xi, 25.

40 Lake to Webbe, 29 May 1804, AH MS 10; Webbe to Arthur Wellesley, 12 June 1804, ibid.

41 Webbe to Arthur Wellesley, 16, 18 June 1804, AH MS 10.

42 Webbe to Arthur Wellesley, 19 June 1804, AH MS 10

43 Webbe to Governor-General, 22 June 1804, AH MS 10; PEC, xi, 35.

44 Webbe, memorandum of discussion, 25 June 1804, AH MS 10; PRO, xi, 39; Webbe to Arthur Wellesley, 26 June 1804, AH MS 10.

45 Webbe to Arthur Wellesley, 30 June, 1 July 1804, AH MS 10; Note to Darbar, 30 June 1804, ibid., and PEG, xi, 42; Webbe to Governor-General, 2 July 1804, ibid., and PRO, xi, 46.