These native states are under treaty to observe the law.

I intend to do all in my power to put a stop to their ghoulish practices, and Maharajah Howrah knows what my intentions are.

It must be a Mohammedan, this time, to whom I intrust my correspondence on suttee!" Now, a Rangar is a man whose ancestors were Hindoos but who became converts to Islam.

Like all proselytes, they adhere more enthusiastically to their religion than do the men whose mother creed it is; and the fact that the Rangars originally became converts under duress is often thrown in their teeth by the Hindoos, who gain nothing in the way of brotherly regard in the process.

A Rangar hates a Hindoo as enthusiastically as he loves a fight.