text:  But if the Company (as we conceive to be the _practical_ aspect of the question) are held to be at the present day the recognized as well as the _de facto_ representatives of the Mogul monarchs there can be no doubt that on the death of Jankojee Sindiah his dominions might fairly have been annexed to the Anglo-Indian empire as a lapsed fief which had reverted to the suzerain by the failure of heirs--a rule which would have been equally applicable to the case of the rival Mahratta house of Holkar the male line of which also became extinct last year and was replaced on the musnud of Indore by a boy seven years old a _adopted_ son of Hurry Rao Holkar