The Author had the distinguished happiness of concluding the treaty with Bundi in February 1818. His previous knowledge of her deserts was not disadvantageous to her interests, and he assumed the responsibility of concluding it upon the general principles which were to regulate our future policy as determined in the commencement of the war; and setting aside the views which trenched upon these in our subsequent negotiations. These general principles laid it down as a _sine qua non_ that the Mahrattas should not have a foot of land in Rajputana west of the Chambal; and he closed the door to recantation by sealing the reunion in perpetuity to Bundi, of Patan and all land so situated. [In 1847, with the consent of Sindhia, his share of the Pātan district was made over in perpetuity to Būndi on payment of a further sum of Rs. 80,000, to be credited to Gwalior. Under the treaty of 1860 with Sindhia the sovereignty of this tract was transferred to the British Government, from whom Būndi now holds it as a perpetual fief, subject to the payment of Rs. 80,000 per annum, in addition to the tribute of Rs. 40,000 payable under the treaty of 1818 (_IGI._ ix. 81 f.).] Footnote 10.4.31: [Risāla properly means ‘a letter, account.’ Risāladār has, in the British service, the special sense of a native officer commanding a troop of cavalry (Yule, _Hobson-Jobson_, 2nd ed. 761 f.).] Footnote 10.4.32: The truck system, called _parna_, is well known in Rajputana. Footnote 10.4.33: And from the Author with the rest, whose nephew he was by courtesy and adoption. [Rām Singh succeeded his father in 1821. He behaved with apathy and lukewarmness in the Mutiny of 1857, but he was given the right of adoption in 1862, and died in 1889. He was “the most conservative prince in conservative Rājputāna, and a grand specimen of a true Rājput gentleman.” He was succeeded by his son Mahārāo Rāja Raghbīr Singh (_IGI._ ix. 82).] Footnote 10.5.1: [See Elliot-Dowson vi. 395, 418.] Footnote 10.5.2: [Rājputs in early days used to intermarry and eat with Bhīls, who were regarded, not as a menial tribe, but as lords of the soil (Russell, _Tribes and Castes Central Provinces_, ii. 281).] Footnote 10.5.3: He held also the districts of Dah and Gura in grant direct of the empire. Footnote 10.5.4: [‘The defile of Mukund,’ also written Mukunddwāra, ‘door or gate of Mukund,’ about 25 miles S. of Kotah city.] Footnote 10.5.5: [The extra-mural suburb of a fortress (Yule, _Hobson-Jobson_, 2nd ed. 702).] Footnote 10.5.6: [15th April 1658 (Jadunath Sarkar, _Hist. of Aurangzib_, ii. 1 ff.).] Footnote 10.5.7: