Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: annexation." The character of British Courts in foreign territory will receive attention in the twelfth chapter of this work. Here it is only necessary to notice the fact that some measure of judicial intervention was unavoidable, and therein lay one of the most formidable menaces to the maintenance of Native rule. For it seemed impossible to introduce British Courts into the states without driving in a wedge that must loosen the whole structure of the Native sovereignty. Such were the views of that eminent officer, Sir John Malcolm, who, in 1830, urged upon the Company the policy of " tolerating for a period what we deem misrule," and " not disturbing such communities with laws which they do not understand." But if the magnitude, position, and conditions of Native rule are examined, it will be seen that the British had no option but to regulate their jural as well as their other relations with states that were not only placed on their borders, but often enclosed within them. The geo- § 7. The Statistical Abstract tells us that the graphical jn(jian Empire includes 1,097,901 square miles of position of r the states. British territory with 232,072,832 British subjects, and if we accept the boundaries of India as traced by geographers,1 824,283 square miles with a population of 68,210,660 are regarded by the law of India as foreign territory, inhabited by people who, in the absence of naturalisation, are not treated in India as British subjects. But the difficulty of welding together these two parts of the Empire into one political system cannot be appreciated without a closer examination of the geographical position of the states.A glance at the map of India shows that, excluding the frontier states of Kashmir, Baluchistan, Nepal, and Bhutan, there are five considerable b...