text:  The proclamation of British supremacy over India by the Marquis of Hastings after the conclusion in 1818 of the war with the Mahrattas and Pindarrees amounted to an assumption on the part of the Company of the same position relative to the native powers as had been held by the monarchs of the house of Timoor--who from the conquest of Delhi by Baber adopted the title of Padishah or emperor as lords-paramount of India and lost no opportunity of enforcing the _imperial_ rights thus asserted against the other Hindoo and Moslem princes among whom the country was divided; till after a century and a half of incessant aggressive warfare Aurungzeeb succeeded in uniting under his rule the whole of Hindostan and the Dekkan from the Himalaya to Cape Comorin