The Sabre's Edge by Allan Mallinson

Author:Allan Mallinson [Mallinson, Allan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Historical Fiction
ISBN: 9780553813517
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2002-12-31T11:00:00+00:00

Sir David was attentive, however. 'One of Rajpootana's neighbours gives me considerable cause for worry, Hervey. I am frankly fearful of a struggle over the succession in Bhurtpore.'

Hervey was surprised by such frankness in their present company.

'You will not know of it, I dare say?'

'I know but a very little, Sir David.'

'Nothing much troubles Fort William but the war with Ava, I suppose. Well, the Rajah of Bhurtpore, Baldeo Sing, has long honoured the treaty of friendship with the Company. He is now becoming frail, and his son Balwant is but a boy, and the rajah is fearful that his nephew Durjan Sal has designs on the succession. The old rajah asked that I invest the boy with a khelat - a sort of honorary dress - as a sign of our recognition of his rightful claim, and this I did in the early part of the year.'

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