But now there is no longer need for an army.

There is no one to fight.

Some of the young men grumble, but the old ones rejoice at the change.
Formerly, they had to go to the plough with their spears and their swords beside them, because they never knew when marauders from the hills might sweep down; besides, when there was war, they might be called away for weeks, while the crops were wasting upon the ground.
"As to the younger men who grumble, I say to them, 'If you are tired of a peaceful life, go and enlist in a Company's regiment;' and every year some of them do so.
"In other ways, the change is good.

Now that the Rajah has no longer to keep up an army, he is not obliged to squeeze the cultivators.
Therefore, they pay but a light rent for their lands, and the Rajah is far better off than his father was; so that, on all sides, there is content and prosperity.

But, even now, the fear of Mysore has not quite died out." "My position, Margaret," the Rajah said, after Dick had left the room, "is a very precarious one.