16/18 This was told me by the son of the old physician, who was the person to whom the speech was made, his father having died before Amir Khan. [W. H.S.] Amir Khan was the famous Pindhari leader. H.T.Prinsep translated his Memoirs from the Persian of Busawun Lal (Calcutta, 1832). The ancient deeds of grant, engraved on copper, of which so many have been published within the last hundred years, almost invariably conclude with fearful curses on the head of any rash mortal who may dare to revoke the grant. |