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Upper Hindustan was then in a sad plight, ravaged alternately by the Abdalis, the Marhattas, and the Jats the king a pageant, the nobles rebellious, the subjects plundered and oppressed, and the country open to every invader though this was near 100 years ago, and although they had some government, justice, and security from 1782 to 1802, yet the country had not even then recovered from the severe shock.
The stake was a common mode of punishment in India in former days, and, until recently, was practised among the Sikhs, Marhattas, and other Asiatic princes, who were independent of our government. Addressing himself to the king Azad Bakht. The term kibla signifies the "point of adoration," and is generally applied to the Ka'ba, or holy edifice, situated in the sacred inclosure of Mecca.
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