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Other words and phrases not in the booklet we picked up from contact with the older and more experienced soldiers. At that time we also learned that the Indian Army was entirely separate from the British, with its own Viceroy commissioned officers whom we did not have to salute, and the ranks of Subahdar, Jemadar and Havildar were added to our vocabularies.
"You had better return to your sloop, Hubbo," he said. "Send a message to the men on the other vessels that I the subahdar, you know have made up my mind to allow one of the enemy's ships to pass me before giving the signal. I shall thus capture one at least, and it may be the admiral's." Hubbo set off, and when he reached his own vessel he sent a boat with a message to each of the ships in turn.
The signal would be given by the subahdar himself from his sloop. "Very well, Hubbo," said Desmond, "that signal must not be given." "But how prevent it, sahib? I wish well to the Company; have I not eaten their salt? But what can one man do against many? Desmond sat for some time with his chin in his hands, thinking. Then he asked: "Do you know where the British fleet is at present?"
The great men of that country, and particularly the Subahdar himself, the Nabob, are and is in so equivocal a situation, that it afforded him two bolting-holes, by which he is enabled to resist the authority of the Company, and exercise an arbitrary authority of his own: for, though the Nabob has the titles of high sovereignty, he is the lowest of all dependants; he appears to be the master of the country, he is a pensioner of the Company's government.
Drake; the offer had better come from him and reach Hubbo through his brother." "And then, sir, it ought not to be impossible to secure the subahdar himself when the moment arrives." Clive looked at the bright eager countenance of the boy before him. "Upon my word, my lad," he said, "I believe you can do it.
To balance him, there was another man, known by the name of the Great Rajah Nundcomar. This man was accounted the highest of his caste, and held the same rank among the Gentoos that Mahomed Reza Khân obtained among the Mahomedans. The prince on the throne had no jealousy of Nundcomar, because he knew, that, as a Gentoo, he could not aspire to the office of Subahdar.
Whatever order might reach the waiting vessels, it would not be given by the subahdar. The question now was, how to prevent the men in charge of the vessels and the authorities in Tanna Fort from becoming suspicious. The latter would not be difficult.
So many many times this Official Report leaves one's curiosity unsatisfied. For instance, here is a little paragraph out of the record of a certain band of 193 Thugs, which has that defect: "Fell in with Lall Sing Subahdar and his family, consisting of nine persons. Traveled with them two days, and the third put them all to death except the two children, little boys of one and a half years old."
For he was a Syed, that is to say, a descendant of Mahomet, and as such, though of the only acknowledged nobility among Mussulmen, would be by that circumstance excluded, by the known laws of the Mogul empire, from being Subahdar in any of the Mogul provinces, in case the revival of the constitution of that empire should ever again take place.
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