FATEFUL YEARS
An exchange remarks :— lt ii a ourioui coincidence how "big with fate" yean ending with the number " 7 " hare been m India. In 175? Olive won th« battle of Plassey, and established our Empire on a firm foundation ; m 1817 our tranquil hold on the country was assured by the final extinction of the MahratU power and the allied Pindarsees ; m 1837 came the first Afghan war, when British 'extension westward reoeived its first deoided ohook ; 1817 saw the Paojtub made practically a British provinot ; 1857 brought the outbreak of the Sapoy mutiny; In 3877 Queen VfatorU became Empress of India ; and lastly 10 jrcari lat«r, comes Jubilee year. But, besidei the celebration of the Imperial Jubilee* what else may not fate have m store fot India this year ? Matters aoron the Hindu Kooah seem fast ripening to § orftji,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1593, 25 June 1887, Page 2
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141FATEFUL YEARS Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1593, 25 June 1887, Page 2
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