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INDIA’S SERVICES IN THE WAR.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION.
This day do Maharaja and Zamindar
Show forth the Orients most Imperial mood.
Satrapies old and Kingdoms that were food
For ravening Time already in years afar:
Long ere Hvdaspes’ tide disdained to bar
'rhe hosts of Alexander, bring unwooed
Their offerings, and the East forgets to brood
And leaps to follow in tempest England’s star.
For there, where first it bloomed, still wisdom Howers
And Hindustan knows well her friends, being wise!
Hither, with smouldering empires in her eyes,
She pours unasked her tributary gold,
Pouring therewith her heart’s goodwill in showers
Richer than all Golconda an hundredfold.
In these words has Sir William Watson, one of our foremost
living English poets, tried to pay an adequate tribute of praise to the
splendid services of India in the War, with special reference to the
work of the Ruling Princes. An attempt is made in this volume to
chronicle the War Services of t.he various Indian States; services
which have met with appreciation everywhere in the Empire and
caused not. a little distress to enemies who, in their ignorance of India
and the nature of t he relationship between the Government and the
Ruling Princes, had not counted on the exhibition of such fine loyalty,
accompanied by such spirited action.
Soon after the outbreak of the War, His Excellency Lord Hardinge,
the then Viceroy of India, was able to acknowledge in terms of the
highest praise the splendid response of the country and the Ruling
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION.
This day do Maharaja and Zamindar
Show forth the Orients most Imperial mood.
Satrapies old and Kingdoms that were food
For ravening Time already in years afar:
Long ere Hvdaspes’ tide disdained to bar
'rhe hosts of Alexander, bring unwooed
Their offerings, and the East forgets to brood
And leaps to follow in tempest England’s star.
For there, where first it bloomed, still wisdom Howers
And Hindustan knows well her friends, being wise!
Hither, with smouldering empires in her eyes,
She pours unasked her tributary gold,
Pouring therewith her heart’s goodwill in showers
Richer than all Golconda an hundredfold.
In these words has Sir William Watson, one of our foremost
living English poets, tried to pay an adequate tribute of praise to the
splendid services of India in the War, with special reference to the
work of the Ruling Princes. An attempt is made in this volume to
chronicle the War Services of t.he various Indian States; services
which have met with appreciation everywhere in the Empire and
caused not. a little distress to enemies who, in their ignorance of India
and the nature of t he relationship between the Government and the
Ruling Princes, had not counted on the exhibition of such fine loyalty,
accompanied by such spirited action.
Soon after the outbreak of the War, His Excellency Lord Hardinge,
the then Viceroy of India, was able to acknowledge in terms of the
highest praise the splendid response of the country and the Ruling