Abstract
The Memoir of Malwa heralded a new phase in Malcolm’s Indian writings. It responded to the emphasis on the administration of British India brought about by the Third Anglo-Maratha War. In the Sketch of the Political History of India of 1812, Malcolm had described the princes of India as potential enemies and allies in a complex system of state rivalry. With the British from 1818 on as unequivocally the paramount power in India, the Memoir had informed its readers that the native princes of central and western India were now to be viewed either as loyal dependents or possible rebel leaders.1 As Malcolm informed the governor general, Lord Hastings, that summer, “the very minds of the inhabitants are for the moment conquered; but neither its former history nor our experience warrants our expectation that these feelings will be permanent.”2 As he saw it, creating a lasting peace through good government was now the main challenge for the British administration of India and this became the central preoccupation of his writings until his death in 1833.
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