CHAPTER IX
THE EXTINCTION
It has been impossible to note all the minor
operations in this confused war, and the isolated
risings of which here and there we have caught
glimpses through the clouds of smoke overhanging
the main field of action—a mere corner of India,
yet a region as large as England. Thrills of
sympathetic disaffection ran out towards Assam
on the one side, and to Goojerat on the other;
up northwards into the Punjaub, as we have seen,
then through the Central Provinces, down into
Bombay, and to the great native state of Hyderabad,
where the Nizam and his shrewd minister
Salar Jung managed to keep their people quiet,
yet reverses on our part might at any time have
inflamed them beyond restraint.
Among the protected or semi-independent Courts of Rajpootana and Central India there were serious troubles. Scindia and Holkar, the chief Mahratta princes, stood loyal to us; but their
