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Excerpt from Hayat-I-Qudsi: Life of the Nawab Gauhar Begum Alias the Nawab Begum Qudsia, of Bhopal The life of her great grandmother given in this volume by Her Highness, the present Begum of Bhopal, takes the reader back to a most stirring and stormy period of Indian history. Qudsia Begum's childhood followed closely on the last irruption into India of the Afghans from the North and the march of the Maharatta armies from the Deccan into Upper India. Her youth witnessed the advance of the power of the East India Company, the defeat of the Maharattas and the stamping out of the predatory bands of Pindaras. The pacification of India followed in the early years of the 19th Century, and the distinguished Political Officer who negotiated most of the treaties and arrangements, which gave a new lease of life to the smaller States of Central India, was Sir John Malcolm, the historian and fascinating writer. Her Highness has quoted his writings several times and there is not a state in Central India which is not indebted to his wise and sympathetic policy under which they have remained up to the present day separate States, devoted to the King Emperor and British Empire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.