Has he not stated over and over again, in his reports, the ill treatment of the Rajah of Tanjore (a branch of the royal house of the Mahrattas, every injury to whom the Mahrattas felt as offered to themselves) as a main cause of the alienation of that people from the British power?
Burke points out that the mistreatment of the Rajah of Tanjore has contributed to the alienation of the Mahratta people from British authority.
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