Note 267 — Chapter IV
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In a despatch from the Court of Directors to the Governor-General, dated September 20, 1837, there occurs this remarkable passage:-“With respect to the states west of the Indus, you have uniformly observed the proper course, which is to have no political connection with any state or party in those regions, to take no part in their quarrels, but to maintain so far as possible a friendly connection with all of them.”