येथील राज्येही कर्नाटकप्रमाणेच खालसा केलीं.* थोडक्यांत सांगावयाचें
म्हणजे तंजवर राज्याचा इतिहास वस्तुतः याच ठिकाणी समाप्त झाला.
*The dissolution of Mysore set forward the
British Dominion by two important steps. It finally
removed an inveterate enemy, whose position had for
thirty years endangered our possessions in South
India; it also gave us complete command over the
Sea-coast of the lower peninsula, and thus greatly
diminished any risk of molestation by the French.
It led, moreover, directly to the virtual extinction of
that power for the control of which the English and
French had fought so sharply in the days of Dupleix
and Clive, the Nawabship of Carnatic. From the
time when that contest had been decided in favour
of the English, the Nawab had decended gradually
through the stages of a protected ally, and a subordi-
nate ruler, to the situation of a prince with nominal
authority, and with a revenue heavily mortgaged for
the payment of the subsidy that was the price of his
protection by the Company. In this unhappy condi-
tion he naturally kept up a secret correspondence
with the Mysore Sultan, his creditor's enemy, and
when Mysore was taken his letters were discovered.
Thereupon Lord Wellesley found himself amply
justified, upon the double ground of political intrigue
and internal mis-government, in bringing the Carnatic
wholly under British administration. The system of
divided authority was, he observed, a serious calamity
to the country, and for the same incontestable reason
he annexed Tanjore and Surat.'
British Dominion in India
Page 245-246.
