bahawalpur

Updated: May 4, 2025

Aberigh-Mackay in his earliest writings e.g. when, in describing The Great Native Princes in his "Handbook of Hindustan," published in 1875, he enters the "Remark" against the Nawab of Bahawalpur, "A smart boy of fourteen; a good polo-player" laid great stress on the desirability of training all Indian noblemen's sons in horsemanship of all kinds.

George Robert Aberigh-Mackay - Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series

Not long ago, at the investiture of the Nawab of Bahawalpur, who had succeeded to the throne of his father, the Viceroy gave a distinct definition of the relationship between the native princes and the British crown. "It is scarcely possible," he said, "to imagine circumstances more different than those of the Indian chiefs now and what they were at the time Queen Victoria came to the throne.

William Eleroy Curtis - Modern India