ABSTRACT
Yeswant Rao Holkar, had he been wise, would have merely rejected the offer, while agreeing to abstain from pressing claims for chauth and deshmukh against territories taken into the Company's sphere. Lord Wellesley decided on a game of subtlety, which for success depended on extreme trustfulness and simplicity in his antagonist —qualities which neither admirer nor detractor had ever ascribed to Yeswant Rao Holkar. The restoration of Cashi Rao Holkar to his hereditary rights by the aid, and under the protection of the British power, would be highly creditable to the justice and honour of the British Government, and advantageous to its interests. General Lake, agreeing, thought that Mahadaji Sindhia ought to undertake the settling of Holkar for the Company. Consistently therefore with the principles of justice, no arrangement can be proposed between the British Government and Jeswunt Rao Holkar, involving a sanction of the exclusion of Cashi Rao Holkar from his hereditary dominions.
